Synthetic Turf Offers Baseball Teams Options

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A true baseball purist, Steve Malliet likes stepping onto a well-manicured baseball diamond and smelling the freshly mowed grass. And his personal journey through professional baseball, with stops in the front offices of four minor-league teams and one big-league club, has allowed him this pleasure often. ...

But only since 2010 - the inaugural season of the Normal (Ill.) Cornbelters, one of two Frontier League franchises that he currently co-owns - has Malliet gotten a sense of the economic advantages realized by carpeting The Corn Crib playing surface entirely in synthetic turf. Even the pitcher's mound is completely composed of manmade materials, save for a little sand.

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