Announcement
Progress update on 5-year fields upgrade program
Recent NCLL Board efforts to upgrade Newton Central baseball programs:
Starting before the Spring 2007 season and continuing through the summer and fall 2007 seasons and the spring and summer 2008 seasons, we engaged a fields contractor to -
* pull boulders out of the Peirce outfield that were at the surface and hurt our players
* put better drainage around the Ward Upper field
* attempt to "flatten" out the infields and outfields
* clean up the base paths
* re-build mound and plate areas
* groom, mow and maintain the fields on a weekly basis
* re-seeded and re-sodded bare outfield areas
* aggressive efforts to dry out the fields after rains so that games can be played
* repairing and regularizing the irrigation of Cabot
* creating a 2d field at Burr (albeit temporary)
* other "invisible" fields maintenance to promote healthy grass and infield, plate and mound dirt
In addition to our fields upgrades, we started off-season baseball clinics, t-ball for NCLL and 3 summer travel baseball teams in the Suburban Youth Baseball League, in our continuing effort to improve your and your children's enjoyment of little league baseball. All of these efforts are costly and most are supported in whole or in part by donations.
Please help !
- Murray Sackman, Fields Coordinator
