I used to be responsible for the use of city soccer fields used by my league and later my district. I talked to several park maintenance supervisors, and found that there's a lot to making and maintaining athletic fields that never would have occurred to me. Since little league is your basic good cause, maybe a grounds supervisor somewhere would talk with you about maintenance.

One of the supervisors I talked to ranted about the original field construction. Seems like it's wasn't constructed to provide adequate drainage and some stumps were covered up rather than removed. The poor original construction caused him permanent maintenance headaches.

Drainage and keeping grass growing on heavily used areas are the two big problems. Poor drainage and poor grass leads to ruts when fields are used wet. Ruts promote broken ankles. Anyway, field maintenance is something of a specialty and it would be good to talk with somebody who does it professionally.

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