Quirky fields

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My old HS field had some intersting quirks:
Center field was butted up to the track, no fence. If no track rats were around it was in play, a ball would roll across hit the curb and you'd have to chase it, if it kicked down the track, you could work on your 100 yd. dash times. If the track rats were around 2 bases, if a ball cleared the track in the air, HR.
Then on over to RF, which had a very steep bank, with a cement retaining wall at the bottom about 5' high and a 6' cyclone at the top, problem was it was only about 270' down the line, anything on the bank 2 bases, cleared the monster on top HR. As you moved from the RF corner towards CF the retaining wall stopped after about 50' but the bank was still there, if a ball rolled up on the bank "play it", in the air 2 bases. Fortunately this field has been replaced.

We still have a local BR field with the light poles inside the fence, last time I was there they had them wrapped with padding at least.

We also have a new baseball diamond here locally, state of the art, beauty, but when our associatlon went out to check it out, first thing we noticed was the Foul Poles, great big screens, just like the majors but, they were swung out to the "foul side". We were able to convince the County that those needed to be corrected.