Youth baseball season.

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BigWerm wrote:

Well growing up in Tonka didn’t your chauffeurs take you to the field too?

Haha. Flaming gold chariot and all.

Apparently playing on an all dirt softball field without a mound is fairly common these days.

gimruis wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>BigWerm wrote:</div>
Well growing up in Tonka didn’t your chauffeurs take you to the field too?

Haha. Flaming gold chariot and all.

Apparently playing on an all dirt softball field without a mound is fairly common these days.

Play is a lot faster with all dirt infield. I prefer it. Gotta pay attention though! Or you’ll be looking for teeth!

Oh I can believe that

Had a another fun playoff game tonight

The team played their hearts out, Ben had a two run in the park homer and all of us coaches were laughing, smiling and cheering as he burned around the bases. He loves to run

They ended up losing 6-8 but it was a great year and most of the kids showed a lot of improvement. Proud of them all

He drifter, glad Royalton was able to knock you out lol. My son played 13u for Royalton but his team isn’t that good and didn’t make state.

gimruis wrote:

Apparently playing on an all dirt softball field without a mound is fairly common these days.

All dirt infields have been common where facilities/money are tight. Heck 2 of the best Class C Amateur Teams in the state (Sobieski and Buckman) had skin infields for adult baseball until recently, and one still does (Buckman).

Drifter good work on stepping up and coaching even though it’s not your area of expertise! None of this stuff happens without coaches and umps, and there is a shortage of both!

gimruis wrote:

Apparently playing on an all dirt softball field without a mound is fairly common these days.

Without a mound is not common (for travel baseball, at least). My son has been playing travel ball the past several years (10, 11, 12), and we’ve never played on a field without a mound–many use portable mounds, but they have mounds.

Dirt infields are fairly common, depending upon the city and age level. It’s a lot easier to have a field set up for multiple age levels with dirt infields (i.e. 10U plays on 60′ basepaths, 11U on 65′ basepaths, 12U/13U play on 75′ basepaths). At both MBT State and MYAS Gopher State tournaments this year, we played on a mix of grass and dirt infields.

We’ve got a nice, new facility in Maple Grove with 4 all-turf fields–that’s a whole nother animal!

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