A-Turf touts its Louisville Slugger surface for baseball

Posted 10/22/2008 - 5:17 PM : Viewed 12858 times.
From Source :  www.athleticturf.net

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Synthetic turf company A-Turf says it has developed a surface ideally suited for baseball and softball. By slightly modifying the rubber and sand infill ratio and fiber pile height, the A-Turf Louisville Slugger surface delivers a high performance field that matches the unique ball roll and bounce of natural grass during play, says a press release from the company.

A-Turf is the exclusive synthetic surfacing partner of Game Time Sports Systems, LLC, which holds the licensing rights to the Louisville Slugger brand.

Synthetic turf isn't just for the “grass” areas either. Synthetic grass, in a color to simulate dirt or clay, is often used for the infield areas providing a natural ball response throughout the field. With synthetic fields, permanently inlaid white turf for foul lines, batter's boxes and coach's boxes eliminate the need to repeatedly paint or chalk the field, according to the release.

A-Turf's systems have the most fiber strands per square yard – a claim no other......

 

A-Turf touts its Louisville Slugger surface for baseball
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Maple bats recommendations presented

Posted 12/4/2008 - 12:21 AM : Viewed 9757 times.
From Source :  sports.espn.go.com

Experts presented recommendations to baseball Friday that they hope will decrease the frequency of broken bats in major league games. The recommendations will be reviewed by Major League Baseball's safety and health advisory committee, which includes players' union officials. "We'll be announc......
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Major League Baseball likely to change, not ban, maple bats

Posted 11/21/2008 - 1:30 AM : Viewed 14969 times.
From Source :  www.usatoday.com

Major League Baseball's Safety and Health Advisory Committee is scheduled meet in New York on Friday to discuss the routine shattering and exploding of bats during the 2008 season. For those who have condemned the use of maple wood and blamed it for the epidemic of broken bats, it might be time to r......
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Ruth's uniform fetches $270,000 at Louisville Slugger Museum auction (Louisville Courier-Journal)

Posted 11/14/2008 - 10:20 PM : Viewed 11245 times.
From Source :  www.courier-journal.com

A 1938 Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, the last baseball road uniform worn by Babe Ruth, sold for $270,000. The uniform, which was purchased by and anonymous bidder, was among nearly 900 items of sports memorabilia up for auction today at the Louisville Slugger Museum on Main Street. Hunt Auctions, ......
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Grove resident in a league of her own

Posted 10/21/2008 - 4:12 PM : Viewed 13616 times.
From Source :  www.tulsaworld.com

Rain meant Gina, who played fast-pitch softball for the Riverside Townies, couldn't tag a runner out at second, or hit a line drive past the shortstop. So for fear of bad news, Gina hid from her home telephone in Providence, R.I. "I would go outside so I wouldn't hear the phone ring saying t......
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Wisconsin student selected as grand-prize winner of Step Up to the Plate @ your library

Posted 10/15/2008 - 3:53 AM : Viewed 16817 times.
From Source :  www.ala.org

Thanks to a trip to his local library, 11-year-old Oscar Youngquist is about to take another journey – this time to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith drew Youngquist’s name as the grand-prize winner of the Step Up to the Plate @ your library® program. De......
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Americans pick as passions collide: politics vs. baseball

Posted 10/3/2008 - 4:04 PM : Viewed 10555 times.
From Source :  www.suntimes.com

Two American passions collide tonight -- baseball and presidential politics -- as the playoffs and the eagerly anticipated vice presidential debate go head-to-head. They have a lot in common, according to Northwestern professor Jerry Goldman, who helped create prezbaseball.org, which compares the......
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Critics cite the dangers of maple bats

Posted 10/2/2008 - 1:40 PM : Viewed 7826 times.
From Source :  www.postcrescent.com

It was just a normal day in June for major league umpire Brian O'Nora. Eat lunch at noon with the crew. Relax. Get to the ballpark in Kansas City at 5:45 p.m.. Walk out to the field. Play ball. Ordinary, until the shards of a broken maple bat hit him — twice. In the second inning, Kansas City Roy......
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Big-league players are into their bats big time

Posted 9/29/2008 - 6:34 PM : Viewed 11947 times.
From Source :  www.stltoday.com

Ty Cobb once called his bat "a wondrous weapon," and the sentiment has hardly diminished through the years. Players still treat their old hickory stick (to use a dated term; hickory hasn't been used in bat-making for decades) with respect, devotion and tender, loving care rarely bestowed upon an......
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The Art of Baseball: Bat Talk

Posted 9/24/2008 - 4:32 PM : Viewed 10335 times.
From Source :  seattletimes.nwsource.com

Ty Cobb once called his bat "a wondrous weapon," and the sentiment has hardly diminished over the years. Players still treat their old hickory stick (to use a dated term; hickory hasn't been used in bat-making for decades) with respect, devotion and tender, loving care rarely bestowed upon an ina......
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My Louisville lip service fooled no one

Posted 9/20/2008 - 5:52 AM : Viewed 12312 times.
From Source :  www.timesonline.co.uk

If ever a city was proud to be associated with a colloquial verb, it is Louisville, Kentucky. The verb “to slug” applies pretty widely here, when you think about it. An attractive city of more than a million souls on the banks of the broad Ohio River (Indiana is on the other side), Louisville is the......
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