Winter is right around the corner, and to those who reside where snow cover is a fairly regular occurrence, its doing your infield a favor. If you are above the thick red line on this map, rest at ease because you commonly experience 75 days or more of snow cover on your field, protecting your infield topdressing from being displaced.
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5 Tips to Prepare a Baseball Field for Winter
Your baseball or softball season is over—so do you just walk away until next spring? That would be a mistake. Successful baseball and softball field maintenance means always looking ahead, even into the off-season, and having a plan to protect your infield for next year. The late summer and fall months, typically drier across much…
How to Budget a Youth Baseball Organization – Pt.2
Written By: Paul Zwaska Managing an organization’s financials is a lot like managing a business. And it is exactly how those who run an organization should look upon that duty. Businesses and organizations are always looking for ways to grow. In most cases, that growth cannot occur without money to carry it forward and a…
How To Budget A Youth Baseball Organization -Pt.1
Budgeting… To some people, just the mention of this exercise can cause waves of panic and apprehension. But organizationally, it’s hard to be successful without one, especially if the organization manages and maintains its own ballfield facilities.
DuraEdge’s Impact on This Year’s American Legion World Series
Veterans Field at Keeter Stadium was the recipient of a new DuraEdge infield this past spring. Why is this significant? Veterans Field, in Shelby, NC, is the home to the American Legion World Series which wrapped up this past month. Recently, we caught up with Leif Hamrick, owner of Foothills Sportsturf, Inc. Leif was hired…
DuraEdge and Professional Outdoor Solutions Team Up to Fix a Field at Rotary Park (Decatur, IL)
We recently caught up with Tony Albertina, Recreation Supervisor for the Decatur Park District (in Illinois) and Andy Ommen of Professional Outdoor Solutions. Tony oversees a complex, Rotary Park, that is home to five ballfields. They were having playability issues, especially with the amount of games they play from May-July. Tony knew they needed to…
Ballfield Maintenance Do’s and Don’ts
We’ve come to the time of year where your fields have seen quite a bit of wear and tear. There are a couple things that we feel are important to think about this time of year: In this article, we’ll be discussing our Do’s and Don’ts for field care. Pregame Do’s Post-Game Do’s Field Maintenance…
DuraEdge becomes an Official Partner of Minor League Baseball
DuraEdge today announced a partnership with Minor League Baseball (“MiLB”) that will make DuraEdge the “Official Infield Mix, Mound Clay, Topdressing and Warning Track materials of MiLB.” With 120 teams across the United States. and Canada, Minor League Baseball’s partnering with DuraEdge, the premier supplier of infield products in North America, was a natural fit…
The History and Best Practices for Infield Topdressings
Written By: Luke Yoder and Paul Zwaska Back in the 1960’s, groundskeepers began incorporating different products into their infield skins to try to improve playability. These products were initially produced for the golf and automotive industries and consisted of diatomaceous earth, porous ceramics, and even crushed corn cobs. They were referred to as amendments or…
DuraEdge Partners with One of the Biggest Amateur Baseball Associations in the Country
DuraEdge has partnered with the Minnesota Baseball Association to become the Official Infield Material Experts for the 2023 season. Paul Zwaska, former MLB Head Groundskeeper with the Baltimore Orioles, current DuraEdge Business Development Specialist in the Midwest discusses the partnership and how it materialized: Coby (Schmucker), the DuraEdge National Bulk Sales Manager, brought this to…
A Day in The Life with Chris May at Russ Chandler Stadium
Have you ever wondered what it was like to work on a big time Division 1 baseball field? We had the pleasure of visiting Chris May, Director of Athletic Grounds at Georgia Tech to see just that. We followed Chris and his crew around to see what a typical day taking care of Russ Chandler Stadium was like.
A Fresh New Look for the Upcoming Season
The DuraEdge calcined clay line is changing. We’ve listened to our customers and helped to streamline our calcined clay offerings with a fresh new look and new features.
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