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A little to the northeast, I found a cut-up cloud, a blue cloud (!) and one little field that it at a different resolution:
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There’s a blue cloud seems to folllow the edges of the roads, then further again to the north east is a green mottled cloud. And just to the right of the green cloud there looks to be a series black smudges, like the burnt edge of a piece of paper. Odd.
they love baseball because they have 4 baseball fields forming a circle? That’s pretty weak.
Actually, there are six fields there, but if that means that they love baseball, then we must really love baseball here in Boulder because we have seven fields in one place:
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I’m sure we can do better than that. Can anyone find more baseball fields together in one place? Maybe in some of the Florida spring training sites.
In Scottsdale, AZ, I’ve found ten baseball fields together, including two small mutant ones. Must be a spring training facility:
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Looks like I struck the mother lode here in Tucson, AZ. There are at least seventeen baseball fields here:
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The blue and green “clouds” are most clearly patches where the high-res imagery has holes and the low-res imagery bleeds through in its place. Compare these colorations with a similar zoom on low res imagery (zoom out to level 7 or 8 up and look to the west)
Here’s a whole crapload of fields in Tuscon:
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Morgan, you totally outdid me - that really is a crapload of baseball fields. I stand by my original post though - especially as I’ve never even **seen** a baseball field… In fact, I seriously doubt that there are any in Scotland!
You want fields? Here’s some fields
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28 fields together, north of Winnipeg MB Canada.
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Incidentally, I’d never seen one of these four-diamond baseball circles until spotting one near Calgary using Google Maps.
We have 12 at my local field.
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It is extremely, extremely common to have multiple baseball diamonds in one place, especially in the “four-quadrants” formation. You can find a scene exactly like this one in almost any town in America.
Here’s a park on the south side of Columbus, OH with, by my count, 30 baseball diamonds.
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Baseball diamond quads are the best ya’ll can do? We’ve got a ring of five near where I live!
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Some cities may have much larger clusters of baseball diamonds, but six diamonds in Powell, Wyoming is still fairly impressive considering the town has a population of only about 5,000.
That would be 210 acre Berliner Sport Park, home of some serious softball every summer including a few tournaments.
Here’s 21…20 Little Leagues (upper right) and 1 Triple A (lower left). This is in Round Rock, TX. The AAA field is for the Round Rock Express (farm team for Houston Astros).
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Any one post chicago?
Yo Wayne I live in Boulder too! Boulder PRYYYYYDE… er something
Morgan:
That’s Tucson Electric Park, where both the Arizona Diamondbacks and Chicago White Sox play spring training. For those unfamiliar with baseball, spring training is when major league baseball teams practice for the upcoming season and play exhibition games against one another. It takes place in March and there are teams which practice in Arizona and teams which practice in Florida. They go down there because it is bitterly cold in the Northern cities in March, especially Boston, Chicago, New York, etc…
Don I was thinking about writing and saying why are you explaining spring training… then it hit me that the guys from this sit are from England. So, my question is how familiar are the English with American Baseball?
Govinator, slight correction… We’re actually **Scottish**. However, you’re absolutely correct, ‘familiar’ isn’t even the right *ballpark*… (if you’ll pardon the pun!)
As I stated further up the thread, I’ve never even **seen** a baseball field!
My apologies sir.
I think we should ban him
But I’m the govinator of Kalifornia
Here is where I grew up and played baseball… 11 fields, they only had 7 when I lived there.
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