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From: bd@peora.UUCP (Bernie Dougan)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Artificial vs Grass
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Date: Fri, 10-May-85 13:50:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 10 13:50:17 1985
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> >Too bad that what I consider one of the other great problems in baseball
> >can't be voted out: artificial turf. I hate the stuff; it is an 
> >abomination. As surely as as the pitcher was meant to hit, baseball was meant
> >to be played on grass. Some AL teams have artificial turf, but the NL is
> >the big offender here. It's getting to the point where I hate to see those
> >giant symmetric plastic ballparks (but somehow I can't turn off the tube;
> >I'm hooked ). And don't get me started on domed stadiums...
> 
> I wouldn't jump all over the NL.  The NL is split with 6 grass and
> 6 artificial.  The AL is 8 grass and 6 artificial.  This isn't
> that great of a difference between the two leagues.
> 
> GO BRAVES!!!
> 
>    Russell Pierce			AT&T Technologies
>    (303) 538-2023			1200 W. 120th Ave.
>    ...!drutx!rkp			Denver, CO  80234

There are only 4 AL teams with artificial turf stadiums:
  Toronto
  Kansas City
  Minnesota
  Seattle


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     Bernie Dougan
     Perkin-Elmer Southern Development Center
     2486 Sand Lake Road
     Orlando, Florida 32809
     (305)850-1040