Baseball players have all of spring training to get ready, but for the groundskeeper, Opening Day brings a lot of pressure. NPR spoke with John Tornour, the Washington Nationals' head groundskeeper.

Do you know how they create the diamond patterns in the grass on baseball fields? I tried by cutting my St. Augustine lawn in a crisscross pattern and it didn't work very well. The designs are crea… ...

Baseball in Alaska: For more than a century, baseball teams in Fairbanks have played at midnight on the summer solstice. The night game is illuminated only by the sun.

Summer is here. The days are bright, and the evenings are long. And amateur athletes of all shapes and sizes have been ...

Paul Skenes has a $9.2 million contract as the Pirates star pitcher. He wants to "cut grass professionally" after baseball.

“Baseball should be played on grass. I get why teams use turf but you lose the nostalgia of the game. As a coach, there is nothing better than cutting the grass and getting it striped just right ...

Tennessee baseball practices on grass ahead of 2025 Fayetteville Super Regional. Story by Dan Harralson, Vols Wire • 11h. N o. 14 national seed Tennessee (46-17) ...

Also on the to-do list: replacing the grass. “We’ll begin that -- call it sometime in March … so that it looks perfect for our first game April 3,” Braves President and CEO Derek Schiller ...

HUDSON – Just like that, the Onsted baseball team continues to march on in the Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) Division 3 baseball tournament, as the Wildcats took a huge win ...

Tennessee baseball practices on a real grass playing surface ahead of the Fayetteville Super Regional. ... Covenant Health Park opened April 15 and has a real grass playing surface.