The Association of Major League Baseball Groundskeepers will induct Pete Flynn of the New York Mets and the late Pasquale ‘Pat’ Santarone, formerly of the Baltimore Orioles, to its Hall of Fame. They were honored Jan.11 at Coors Field in Denver, home to the Colorado Rockies. Flynn began his career as an “Original Met” working on the field during the team’s inaugural... read more
Turface Athletics, in partnership with Baseball Canada and Major League Baseball (MLB), will conduct its first Field and Ballpark Maintenance Clinic Series throughout Canada in May. Murray Cook, the field and ballpark consultant for MLB, and other industry experts will lead three clinics in three different ballparks in Canada. The clinics are designed to arm attendees with information to help enhance... read more
Watch Busch Stadium, home of the St. Louis Cardinals, fully transform from baseball diamond to soccer pitch… and back to baseball. read more
Comerica Park, home of the Detroit Tigers, traded in its patchwork-patterned turf for a new HGT Kentucky bluegrass field just one week before Opening Day and on the heels of a late-March snowfall. The Tigers’ grounds crew aimed to install a new field before the 2013 season and after Detroit’s Hockeytown Winter Festival, a winter event where the NHL installs... read more
The Marlins Park grounds crew is looking forward to MLB’s Opening Day on March 31, in hopes that they finally found the perfect turfgrass: Platinum TE paspalum. During the two-year journey that led to Platinum TE, the park, home of the Miami Marlins and the first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) stadium in the U.S., has also been... read more
