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In the beginning early days of the game of baseball the games were played on open fields with non existing surrounding structure such a stand or bleachers for the fans or player supporting facilities.
As the popularity of baseball increased and it became clear that crowds would gather and men with an eye for business and commercial persuasion realized the profit potential because of this crowd attraction.
It took very little imagination to know that enclosing the area and allowing only paying patrons to enter while keeping the non-paying rabble out would put money into the pockets of the baseball team or the ballpark owners.
Ballpark ground rules had its purpose and a need for regulating play out there in the open pastures as well as inside our great ball parks.
The advent of paying fans to enjoy baseball took hold and the professional outcome of ball teams, ball players and paying fans grew the game of baseball into becoming known as "The Nations Pastime."
Within the context of growing crowd growing facilities and such surroundings of the playing fields the need for strict and precise rules to govern the play we had the introduction of ballpark ground rules to rule the day.
Do you ever recall playing on a baseball field where the infield diamond was smooth and level but beyond the infield the area of the outfield would slope down hill. A well hit ball getting past the outfielder could roll forever.
Baseball fields and golf courses you will never play either game on two identical layouts. Think goodness we have our ball park ground rules and our rules of ethics in golf to make our games fair. Should we use the phrase a "level playing field."
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The far reaches of the open baseball outfield many times would border on a lazy spring fed creek. The creek was the 4th outfielder. Needless to finish the story but we played the better part of most games on such a field with a wet soggy ball which weighed about twice normal weight.
Playing baseball in the country many of the playing fields would be surrounded on the backside especially around the back of the home plate with thick growth of honeysuckles.
Playing the games out in the country by the general rules of baseball required a discussion of the ballpark ground rules before each game.
Much of our time was spent having the smaller non playing spectators crawling under the vines to retrieve the fouled away or tipped baseballs.
Our game in our lives survived such tribulations and our love of playing baseball contains these moments in our memory bank.
Not withstanding how country boys faced up to the playing field conditions. The game of baseball and its ballpark ground rules did survive and in todays modern well maintained magnificent stadiums the use of ballpark ground rules are still needed.
Although the stadiums and ballparks are world class facilities the games are being played within guidelines of the ballpark ground rules.
The baseball diamonds and ballparks of today are engineered to meet the approved standards to enhance safety of the players and the spectators and also to keep an eye on the requirements of minimizing ballpark ground rules.
Do what you will regards engineering and construction methods used in the design and layout of our playing fields we will always have our ballpark ground rules to rule the play.
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Some interesting and intriguing background on the layout or configuration of our baseball playing field or ball diamond is unique which required "The Thinker" to help make ballpark ground rules.
Our baseball playing area or field is as mentioned many times is referred to as the ball diamond.
Diamond; A square or rhombus-shaped figure usually oriented with the long diagonal vertical. In baseball: a baseball infield; also: the entire playing field.
By simply looking at the playing field one readily recognizes that the long vertical line from the back tip of home plate to straight-a-way center field fits the definition of "Diamond."
There are some universal and exact measurements which are required to be the same at all ballparks or layout design of the professional baseball fields.
One would be hard pressed to describe or explain about a baseball park or ball diamond without the use of descriptive baseball lingo. Knowing the baseball talk is also knowing the game and the work home of the players..
The distances between bases, the diamond if you will, and the distance from pitching rubber to home plate, etc. However, then again, there are some items about the playing field that have significant "but allowable" dimension variances from all others.
Did you know that before the start of every baseball game the head or chief umpire calls the two baseball team managers to home plate? You know what they are talking about?
Part of that discussion is dealing with ballpark ground rules that apply to that particular playing field/diamond and has to do with the sometimes unique construction of the park.
Most all baseball fields today have a fence in the outfield, this was not so in the days when I was a youngster. To be specific one of the fields of Double AA baseball in the old Southern Association belonging to the Atlanta Crackers Ole Ponce De Leon Park had (no fence-a gap) in center field.
Sulfur Dell Park in Nashville home of the Nashville Vols had quite a hill in right field and a high retaining wall at the top of the hill. Would you say that Boston’s Fenway Park has a unique "green monster" fence as the entire right field has a 17-18 foot high wall?
In a passing comment before Boston had the green monster it to had a hill or unique incline to its outfield fence so take away the hill and put up a monster.
To venture a guess "The world of baseball fans across the globe knows about Bostons Fenway Park and the Green Monster."
You Betcha!
Auburn's monster fence in it's left field is a thing of comment and intrigue in the Southeastern Conference play.
The distance from home plate to the outfield wall, down the foul line, both to the left field pole and the right field pole are as varied as there are fields of play. When you view the outfield wall from left field to right field or right field to left field there is no hard rule of design.
The wall or fence may be a smooth curve extending from one foul line pole to the far side foul line pole, or then it can be an angular or multi angled arrangement with varying dimensions and distances from home plate.
Nothing is exactly the same in any of our ball parks.This unique aspect i.e. differences in every baseball field/diamond adds to the greatness of this game of baseball all made possible by and to a degree because of our ball park ground rules.
Baseball players both the standing home team players as well as visiting players soon become familiar with the ball park ground rules and fields around the league. Many dearly love to play in some parks while others totally dislike playing in a specific park.
Pitchers and hitters each view the character and design of the playing field and the ball park ground rules with a different eye for their likes or dislikes.
The dugout, as a structure that extends itself onto the field of play, again presents itself as an obstacle which in many cases requires ball park ground rules recognized and understood by both participating ball teams.
Some dugouts are completely behind fencing, some have rails installed in front of the dugout and the some are completely open with no barrier or protective shield.
Normally a ball in play that gets past a fielder and goes into an open dugout, will by ball park ground rules, allow a runner or runners to advance one base beyond the base he is approaching.
Ball Park Ground Rules for each unique baseball field many times will dictate the call by the umpire for a specific call which might be contrary to another fields play of the ball.
Did you know that a batter is supposed to be called out if he hits a fair ball with his foot outside of the batters box?
Boy, are there rules and are there rules!!
Ballpark ground rules are the rules for baseball which applies to the particular ball park where the game is actually being played.
A batted ball that hits the playing field chalk line/foul line past the first or third base lines, is it fair or foul? By rule this is a fair ball. The umpire has only a fraction of a second to see the action and then to signal and call what he sees, but his call is incontestable.
There are some things standard for all baseball diamonds you will need to visit them all to know what is what about Baseball Ballparks across this land where each of the ballpark ground rules are different.
Fair or Foul call , folks it matters not, the umpires call neither wins nor loses the game. It’s the team that wins or loses!
Coming soon to professional baseball, which will be a help to umpires making some of the calls effecting ballpark ground rules, is the use of instant replay camera action.
All we want to do is play ball we will let the umpires and the coaches worry about the Ballpark Ground Rules we are ready to start the game and start Hitting a baseball.
Ump yelled "PLAY BALL"!
Batter Up----Let's Play Ball....
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