Nasty weather on the horizon...

[MajorDave]

they have the one mounted on a pole. It flashes a bright strobe, a shrill siren wails for about 30 seconds and the light continues to flash until the lightning risk is gone from the area. Then we wait 30 minutes after the light quits flashing. Never seen lightning there. Played in rain there when it did not go off. Stopped play two times in the last five years when I was there. I am sure there were other occasions it went off. The park director and league administrators love it. I guess it is fine if that is a real risk. I have no personal experience with lightning strikes to anyone I have ever known or even heard of. I guess I am just lucky.

Your mileage may vary.

[jdmara]

Originally Posted by MajorDave

they have the one mounted on a pole. It flashes a bright strobe, a shrill siren wails for about 30 seconds and the light continues to flash until the lightning risk is gone from the area. Then we wait 30 minutes after the light quits flashing. Never seen lightning there. Played in rain there when it did not go off. Stopped play two times in the last five years when I was there. I am sure there were other occasions it went off. The park director and league administrators love it. I guess it is fine if that is a real risk. I have no personal experience with lightning strikes to anyone I have ever known or even heard of. I guess I am just lucky.

Your mileage may vary.

What level is this? HS? Pretty fancy, sounds like a great system to me!

-Josh

[MajorDave]

That has a five field cloverleaf of fields in one location dedicated to baseball (t-ball through High School/Legion level) and another four field cloverleaf for softball plus soccer, basketball, tennis, some sort of paddleball, handball, skateboarder/in-line skater, BMX races, lighted beach volleyball and a nice pool with slides, waterpark stuff also. Obviously, a LOT of money spent. Most of it donated I hear from the families that owned the land used to develop it. Coincidentally there are new neighborhoods going all around the park with pricey homes. I guess they did not give away all the land they owned for a park. (grin) Pretty smart actually.

[Blue37]

Originally Posted by MajorDave

That has a five field cloverleaf of fields in one location dedicated to baseball

We are planning a new park in my city. How are the five fields laid out? Do they share a press-box? I have seen many four field configurations, but never five. It would help us to get an extra field in the same area as the four we are planning.

[SAump]

Originally Posted by Blue37

We are planning a new park in my city. How are the five fields laid out? Do they share a press-box? I have seen many four field configurations, but never five. It would help us to get an extra field in the same area as the four we are planning.

Not to sure what that will turn up. But if you travel to Phoenix, AZ, they have quite a selection for planning purposes. I would say Phoenix probably has more baseball fields per square mile than any other big city. Check out the lighting at the Red Mountain complex. Others are home to cactus league MLB teams. A few are city diamonds formerly owned by MLB teams.