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 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…
2023 MiLB Symposium Recap and History
In the fall of 2015, Tom Burns and Luke Yoder began discussions with a small group of seasoned MiLB groundskeepers to gauge their interest in an annual Symposium that would provide them the opportunity to gather as a group. Tom attended the first MLB Symposium in the year 2000 and every one after that until the year 2006, when he was with the Texas Rangers. Luke attended his first MLB Symposium in 2001 representing the Pittsburgh Pirates and every one after that through 2015, ending while he was with the Padres. Tom and Paul Zwaska (formerly with the Orioles) helped coordinate that first Symposium. Luke eventually took the lead and coordinated successive ones for several years following Bob Christofferson’s (retired from Seattle Mariners) lead and then passing it onto Bill Deacon (New York Mets). Attending those meetings provided valuable insights on many aspects of professional development and groundskeeping. It also provided the opportunity to strengthen existing relationships and develop new ones that would last a lifetime.
Over 100 Years of Groundskeeper Experience: Get to know our experts
At DuraEdge Products we are fortunate to have a great business development team which includes four individuals with career backgrounds as professional groundskeepers in the MLB and MiLB ranks. Their collective wealth of experience creates the foundation for our success in the infield mix realm and provides field care perspectives that only each of them…
Q&A with Paul Zwaska
We recently caught up with our newest DuraEdge employee, Paul Zwaska, to get some more insight into some of his interesting background and experience working in groundskeeping and the sports turf industry. Q: What drew you into the soil science/sports turf field? Growing up in Wisconsin back in the 1970s, like a lot of kids,…
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