Weekend Warriors Alert- Recreating Striped patterns from Major League Baseball fields on your own lawn is easier than you think -but you have to have a strategy and stick with it

WSJDigitalNetwork video: Stripe Your Lawn Like the Major Leagues. 
WSJ Digital correspondent Wendy Bounds goes to Boston's Fenway Park to speak with ballpark field manager David Mellor to get some inside advice about about how they make some of those amazing "striping" patterns in the grass and how you can learn the tricks of the trade. April 27, 2012. http://youtu.be/xXQDP5IqowQ







John Deere video: How to Pattern Mow Your Lawn. May 4, 2011. 
http://youtu.be/PU--zduP_IY


I was planning on running a lot of my photos from Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, where for most of the time between 1992-2003, I had a mini-season ticket plan and probably attended over 20 ballgames a year, despite living in Arlington County.


Unfortunately, for my purposes today, most of the photos are of my friends and the ballpark itself, and the ones showing the grass parts of the field weren't at the right angle so that you could see the patterns in the outfield, hence my use of these photos from photobucket.












Scott's Lawn Care, who is the official Lawn Care company of MLB, and which actually sells the same grass seed mix as used at five MLB ballparks -Cardinals, Cubs, Phillies,  Red Sox and Reds- has a number of clever examples of various designs that you can check out on their website and consider for your own lawn
http://www.scotts.com/smg/search/gSrchResults.jsp?newsearch=baseball


http://www.youtube.com/user/ScottsMiracleGro 


Here's the link to their Scotts Lawn Care's MLB Snap Perks National Launch Sweepstakes on Facebook, which includes trips to the 2012 All-Star Game in Kansas City and the 2012 World Series: https://www.facebook.com/scottslawn?sk=app_329168310455200





John Deere - 175 Years
http://www.youtube.com/johndeere

When local govt. over-reaches: When asked why fake grass would continue to be allowed in backyards, but not in the front?, "officials had no answer"

KCAL-9-TV News video: Turf War? Glendale Bans Fake Grass. November 17, 2011 12:49 AM

When local govt. over-reaches: When asked why fake grass would continue to be allowed in backyards, but not in the front?, "officials had no answer"

Because that would affect people who 'putter' around?

IU grad and former WPLG-TV/Channel 10 weekend anchor Rob Schmitt has the details on this curious zoning decision re sustainable gardening from the belly of the beast out in Cali -Glendale, California. That's a city that gave us one of the first real S&L/Thrift debacles, an

investigation I worked on in Washington, D.C.

Los Angeles Times

LA Now blog

Glendale residents ordered to remove fake grass from front yards

November 16, 2011, 2:17 pm

Some cities offer rebates for residents who install water-saving artificial lawns in their front yard. But in Glendale, city leaders approved a ban on the faux grass and have begun issuing warnings to violators.

Read the rest of the post at:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/glendale-residents-forced-to-remove-artifical-turf-from-front-yards.html

*My personal experience is that the LA Now breaking news blog of the LA Times is very informative and often provides a perspective that the MSM doesn't provide to LA-based stories that I hear about elsewhere.

So how come the Miami Herald and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel have nothing like it? http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/

See Artificial Turf Demonstration Project - SYNLawn on the City of Glendale website: http://www.ci.glendale.ca.us/planning/artificialturfSYNLawn.asp

City of Glendale, California Comprehensive Design Guidelines, Final Draft of October 17, 2011, includes photos:

http://www.ci.glendale.ca.us/planning/NorthGlendale/comprehensive%20design%20guidelines%20Sept28-post%20print%20corrections.pdf

Glendale Zoning Code, Chapter 30 -deals with artifical turf:

http://www.ci.glendale.ca.us/gmc/Zoning_Code/Chapter30-31.pdf

KABC-TV video: Turf war over fake lawn in Newport Beach. Jan. 23, 2008.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local&id=5910717

The Cost of the Savings and Loan Crisis: Truth and Consequences

by Timothy Curry and Lynn Shibut*

FDIC Banking Review, 2000

http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/banking/2000dec/brv13n2_2.pdf

http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/working/

http://www.youtube.com/user/GlendaleCityzen

http://www.youtube.com/user/GlendaleCitizen#p/u