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<blockquote data-quote="Dress2Jacket" data-source="post: 904555" data-attributes="member: 5508"><p>You've seen the indoor/outdoor carpet used in boats and the occasional sunroom? That was 1970's turf. It was thin and was laid right over asphalt or concrete. Today's stuff has padding under it, has rubber crumb (or cork, or...) infill, and is softer than a traditional sod field.</p><p></p><p>In the interim, the worst was the turf at the SAC fields in the mid-80's. They used mason's sand as ballast on the turf. The difference between mason's sand and river sand is that mason's sand has sharp edges, whereas river sand has rounded, polished edges. Take a dive on the old SAC fields and it was like someone hit you with a belt sander... Truly awful. It only took one dive on that stuff to make you either dress differently or to never dive for a ball. Oh, and a ball would roll forever on that stuff. With no fences, what might have been a double that went to the fence in on a regular field rolled and rolled and rolled. Automatic HR.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dress2Jacket, post: 904555, member: 5508"] You've seen the indoor/outdoor carpet used in boats and the occasional sunroom? That was 1970's turf. It was thin and was laid right over asphalt or concrete. Today's stuff has padding under it, has rubber crumb (or cork, or...) infill, and is softer than a traditional sod field. In the interim, the worst was the turf at the SAC fields in the mid-80's. They used mason's sand as ballast on the turf. The difference between mason's sand and river sand is that mason's sand has sharp edges, whereas river sand has rounded, polished edges. Take a dive on the old SAC fields and it was like someone hit you with a belt sander... Truly awful. It only took one dive on that stuff to make you either dress differently or to never dive for a ball. Oh, and a ball would roll forever on that stuff. With no fences, what might have been a double that went to the fence in on a regular field rolled and rolled and rolled. Automatic HR. [/QUOTE]
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