It is. But most people aren't prepared for the 14-16hr days, sometimes 3 weeks straight, with no weekends, and no holidays (remember, they play baseball on Memorial Day, 4th of July, and Labor Day - so you're working). But if that stuff doesn't bother you... There's almost nothing else I'd rather be doing than making a field perfect. 👍
@@paulc5585 if it's something you're interested in doing, you have 2 options: 1) do it as a hobby. You can volunteer/work at a local professional facility (if there is one near by) as part of the game day crew. 2) you can do it the way these guys do it, as a career, professionally. But that will take you going to school for it. Get into a turf management program at a university. From there, get into an internship with a minor or major league club, and go from there.
My school pitchers mound is straight dirt, no clay at all, and it’s about a foot and a half above home plate not the 10 inches, it is literally impossible to pitch on, your cleats slide instead of dig when you push your front leg in, if you pitch straight down your screwed, if you are a 3/4 pitcher you should maybe be ok
If your still there, I would talk to your coach about! If he is a good coach he will contact the right people to get that fixed and other issues the field has, as long as the school has the budget for it. Unfortunately the school usually doesn’t, and then you have to have a fundraiser to fix the baseball field, then get the schools permission to have a private contractor to come in with a crew to fix the field. Good luck!!
What I love about Baseball fields is that no two are the same.
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Never knew there were such tight specifications for a field.
I knew that 60' 6" was from the back of the rubber but didn't know that it was to the back of home plate.
It's actually from the front of the rubber to the back of home plate.
Are pitching mount to home plate in steps is 19
Interesting
Dream job
It is. But most people aren't prepared for the 14-16hr days, sometimes 3 weeks straight, with no weekends, and no holidays (remember, they play baseball on Memorial Day, 4th of July, and Labor Day - so you're working). But if that stuff doesn't bother you... There's almost nothing else I'd rather be doing than making a field perfect. 👍
@@MH3GL don't care about weekends and holidays. Still a dream job
@@paulc5585 if it's something you're interested in doing, you have 2 options:
1) do it as a hobby. You can volunteer/work at a local professional facility (if there is one near by) as part of the game day crew.
2) you can do it the way these guys do it, as a career, professionally. But that will take you going to school for it. Get into a turf management program at a university. From there, get into an internship with a minor or major league club, and go from there.
My school pitchers mound is straight dirt, no clay at all, and it’s about a foot and a half above home plate not the 10 inches, it is literally impossible to pitch on, your cleats slide instead of dig when you push your front leg in, if you pitch straight down your screwed, if you are a 3/4 pitcher you should maybe be ok
If your still there, I would talk to your coach about! If he is a good coach he will contact the right people to get that fixed and other issues the field has, as long as the school has the budget for it. Unfortunately the school usually doesn’t, and then you have to have a fundraiser to fix the baseball field, then get the schools permission to have a private contractor to come in with a crew to fix the field. Good luck!!
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