Baseball diamonds are like snowflakes: no two are alike. It’s one of the things that makes the sport great. Ask any baseball fan what they love most about the sport and they’ll likely give you a similar answer, something that makes baseball unique among all other games. There’s no clock. It’s played nearly daily for seven months (well, usually). The players’ boss wears pajamas. What sticks out to me is how no two fields are alike. Every football field is 300 feet long and 160 feet wide. Basketball courts, from high school to college to the NBA, are 94 feet by 50 feet. But baseball teams get to choose how their playing surface will be shaped, and that decision has wide-ranging implications. A bandbox park will benefit groundball pitchers, while a cavernous outfield like the Rockies’ will cut down on home runs at the expense of more doubles and triples. Fences can be shallower on one side or another to give an advantage to batters who hit from that side of the plate. The walls can ...
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