The Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA) is celebrating its 15th anniversary of volunteering as the grounds crew for the Little League World Series (LLWS). Seth Whitehill, Little League Baseball’s groundskeeper and STMA member since 2011, will lead 40 STMA volunteers in preparing and managing the fields for more than 30 televised games on ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPN 3, ESPNU and WATCH... read more
Comerica Park, home of the Detroit Tigers, traded in its patchwork-patterned turf for a new HGT Kentucky bluegrass field just one week before Opening Day and on the heels of a late-March snowfall. The Tigers’ grounds crew aimed to install a new field before the 2013 season and after Detroit’s Hockeytown Winter Festival, a winter event where the NHL installs... read more
When two famed European soccer clubs Real Madrid and Inter Milan visited St. Louis in early August to play an exhibition match at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis nearly 55,000 fans saw a great match. It reportedly was the largest crowd to ever see a soccer match in St. Louis, or for that matter the entire state of... read more
By Jim Novak, Turfgrass Producers International When Kirk Hunter, executive director of Turfgrass Producers International (TPI), traveled to Washington in 2009, he met with representatives of the National Coalition to Save Our Mall and a representative of the National Mall Third Century Initiative to discuss the deplorable condition of the turf. TPI wanted an update on what could be done,... read more
By: Jim Novak, Turfgrass Producers International When a decision was made to convert three-year-old, 21,800-seat BMO Field in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from artificial turf to natural grass, Claus Zander of Zander Sod Co. Limited, in Kettleby, Ontario provided the turfgrass and assisted with installation. “The players asked for it, the European players demanded it … and we supplied the turfgrass sod to get... read more
