# Baseball stadium lawn? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 12, 2000, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-stadium-lawn/25262 "2000-07-12T02:54:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skwerl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Skwerl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skwerl)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-stadium-lawn/25262/1 "2000-07-12T02:54:13Z")
How do they get baseball field grass to be striped like that? Is it the way they cut it, or the way it’s fertilised, or both? Is there any way I could get my grass to have that pattern? Or would that just look stupid? ---
**Author:** ![tcburnett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@tcburnett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tcburnett)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-stadium-lawn/25262/2 "2000-07-12T02:59:55Z")
Cecil knows! And now, so do the rest of us. Pp 272/273 of ‘Triumph of the Straight Dope’. I’m trying to get a book sale here. That’s why there is no link to ‘checkerboard pattern in baseball outfield’. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-stadium-lawn/25262/3 "2000-07-12T03:07:04Z")
Well, the master’s response is [here](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/960510.html). However, after reading it , I don’t think he has the whole story. Look for my new thread in “Comments on Cecil’s Columns” ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-stadium-lawn/25262/4 "2000-07-12T03:19:52Z")
I guess I’ll just post it here. Nowadays, you can just use a roller to get the blades of grass to lay in a certain direction, and create as many patterns as you want. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-stadium-lawn/25262/5 "2000-07-12T06:30:04Z")
When the new Comerica Park opened in Detroit, the outfield grass was cut into a bullseye pattern. It was very hard to look at it (as were the Tigers early in the year). It has since been changed to a checkerboard pattern I believe and the Tigers are playing better. When I was a kid, I realized that if I mowed the family in two directions, I could get a fair approximation of the checkerboard pattern. However, I was too lazy to do that more than once. ---
**Author:** ![TNTruth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@TNTruth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TNTruth)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-stadium-lawn/25262/6 "2000-07-12T14:15:02Z")
Bob, Nice typo. I hope it wasn’t Freudian. ---
**Author:** ![Gazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazoo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-stadium-lawn/25262/7 "2000-07-12T15:23:42Z")
Bob, you really shouldn’t mow the family! I see Lawnboy (or one of the major brands) has an ad campaign featuring a riding lawn mower with rollers for home use so everyone can make their lawn look like that. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-stadium-lawn/25262/8 "2000-07-12T16:02:35Z")
I guess I really hated doing yard work more than I thought.