Braden would swing from the leftie side of the plate at home if that were our field.

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jmcfar_98 said:

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Morehead State, who plays against Illinois today and is a popular upset pick, has maybe the weirdest baseball field in the country. Haven for lefties. Apparently they're unable to push the right field fence back because there's a species of endangered salamanders living there? pic.twitter.com/c3VAD5Ihrw

— Matt Monagan (@MattMonagan) March 21, 2024

Man what Jace and Monty could do at that place.

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That is the worst thing I have ever seen and should be illegal

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Worst? Might want to checkout the old Clark Field in Austin

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Yep, that thing was unbelievable.

greg.w.h said:

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Braden would swing from the lefie side of the plate at home if that were our field.

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Hell, I'd swing from the left side, too, and I never have!

Agsncws said:

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That ball rolls into the left field gap, it might not come back til Monday.

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Their left center gap is just a normal field. It just looks cavernous because of the itty bitty RF

Sean98 said:

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There's a Twitter account, if someone can find it, of a guy who did his Master's thesis on unique fields. He's mapped every HS and college ball field in like 20 states. You would be AMAZED at some of them.

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Please post link. Do it, do it, do it.

Sean98 said:

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There's a Twitter account, if someone can find it, of a guy who did his Master's thesis on unique fields. He's mapped every HS and college ball field in like 20 states. You would be AMAZED at some of them.

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My favorites are the ones where CF fence is like 610 ft.

jbone3515 said:

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I played high school baseball in Canyon, TX outside of Amarillo. We played Perryton my junior and senior years. (Home of Mike Hargrove.) Their field had weird dimensions. The right field fence backed up to the main road in town. Right-center was probably 300. They had a lefty that was drafted. He lead the district in home runs, obviously.

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Not for nothing, but if this is the available space, why wouldn't you minimize/eliminate everything down the third base line except the dugout, and pull the field towards 6th as much as possible. Everything else could go in the open field on the first base side?

One of the Baytown schools we used to play at did one of the high net things in the outfield, just dumb.

Played at a world championship series in little league at a field in Tampa, two poles from power lines were in the field of play. So out of all the fields in Florida they chose that cruddy one?

Also played a city championship in Orange, tornado came through a week before and damaged the bronco field so we played on a smaller field. Lots of home runs that series, was fun as heck unless you were pitching

Chrundle the Great said:

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It's even crazier than just that configuration alone.

I looked it up on wiki and the mentioned that the RF wall has "been built much taller to balance it's irregular dimensions"

Not many pictures, but looks like it's just a super tall disjointed net! Imagine trying to play a line drive off that net.

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If they could build a green monster there like at Fenway then that could actually turn things into a positive. But I'm guessing that the required support structure would need to encroach into the forbidden territory. What they have now is a mess.

Sean98 said:

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There's a Twitter account, if someone can find it, of a guy who did his Master's thesis on unique fields. He's mapped every HS and college ball field in like 20 states. You would be AMAZED at some of them.

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Wow, looking through those shows there are a fair number of high schools that take neither baseball nor football very seriously (with their weird "combined" fields). Quite the "anti-Texas" of the high school athletics world.

Matt Antonelli - Strangest Field

Can we get the species and a picture of the salamander?

Looks like a high school field that doubles as a practice field for football. Plenty of those around Texas I assure you.

Sean98 said:

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Here it is:

https://twitter.com/davehrus


https://davehrus.myportfolio.com/baseball

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I really hoped St Anthony's weird field with right field that went on forever with its weird off the stone fence rules were included in this

Shift over two outfielders to left field for that park? Lol. That field would be hard to play on. Looks like a putt putt golf set up.

Gotta be fun recruiting pitchers to a place like that