Minute Maid Park Tour

EAT Officers Build  Traditions at Brook

 

 

 

 

   President: Sophia Anwar    

   Vice-President: David Gasvoda

   Secretary: Katherine Luu

   Historian: Cindy Au

February 2008

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The grass on the field was imported from Argentina (of course we were asked not to touch the grass). We saw the groundskeepers maintaining the grass on the field and adding a fertilizer/nutrient/soil mixture to the grass and raking and watering the grass.

We learned that all baseball parks must have a fern moss garden behind the batter's box to help with the contrast when the game is shown on TV. This fern moss was in its own little perfect box, strategically placed in a catty-corner garden above the ground.

More photos can be found on page 2.

By Leatrice Devault

 

Clear Brook High School

Newsletter

In this issue:

Engineering, Agriculture, Technology

During the tour, we learned about the design and build of the structure, the dimensions and size of the field and the park, the retractable roof's design and how it functions, the transformation of the design from Enron to Minute Maid, etc., down to the material used to design the windows of the buildings near the park to prevent shattering in case of flying balls.

 

We also learned about the maintenance of the grass on the baseball field.