Have you ever wanted to be a ‘ballplayer’ for a day? Just to see how it feels to trot out on that well-manicured diamond, walking among baseball Gods. Well, Slate’s Emily Yoffe got to do that—sort of. She was walking among baseball Gods, but only because she was the one manicuring the diamond.
Fantasy Camp with the Grounds Crew and the ‘Toro Sand Pro 3040’
↵That’s right, she spent a day with the Washington Nationals grounds keeping crew, and her account is pretty entertaining. Especially her anecdote driving the “Sand Pro”:
↵↵I didn’t know whether I should stop or even how to stop—the Sand Pro had no brake, and my only experience stopping was driving into a solid object—so I kept going and going, worrying that I might be wearing a trench in the stadium. Finally, Royse and Burton came out … I realized they were the grounds crew, and I was simply the ground screw.
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