Burning Baseball Fields

Although the practice is not advised, apparently it's fairly common for people to try to quickly dry out wet baseball fields by dousing them in gasoline and burning them.

One such case was recently in the news: "Baseball field closed due to 'poor decision' to douse it in gas, set it on fire"

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Field Maintenance at Governors Field in Ridgefield. First responders currently on scene. Game being moved? Environmental Hazard? pic.twitter.com/9eKd2JcBJC
— NortonAmityTeacher (@AmityNorton) April 6, 2019

But youtube offers up many more examples.

via reddit

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Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 10, 2019
Category: Sports

Comments

"...look at that player go! He is burning up the field as he rounds third base and heads for home!"

agent j

Posted by agent j on 04/10/19 at 08:46 AM

Horrible journalism! Just reporting the sensational flames and not bothering to find out if the field was dry enough to play on afterwards.

Posted by Phideaux on 04/10/19 at 11:29 PM

Solar power not working for ya? Time to move on to good old fossil fuel.

Posted by Virtual on 04/11/19 at 11:49 AM

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