Practice Fields

If you practice at 101st and Elm; we are still getting complaints from the Church about people using their parking lot.  Please do not park in the church lot.  If using the main street location please only park in the gravel area, not in the paved lot.

Practice fields are tuff to come by. We do not want to lose what we have. Please respect other teams, sports, landowners, neighbors and the property itself.

March 27th Message:------------------------------------------

We are always short on practice fields. 

The School department is gracious enough to allow us some fields for practice.  They have a tuff task in that they try to divide their space between all the BA youth sports.  If you have a school practice field please respect the other teams and sports playing there.  Also please respect the school property.  Leave nothing but footprints should be the philosophy. Please take your trash with you. We do not own these fields and do not maintain them, but we need them.

This year we made agreements with 3 private landowners to use their land for practice.  This allowed us to get most of our teams practice areas.  Again, please respect these landowners requests and their property (park where you should, take trash with you, fill out release forms if needed, and do not destroy/damage their property).    

Many of our teams have practiced for years on various private property, the owners are charged by the city with general mowing (brush hog usuallly) to control varmits and pests, as well as for asthetics. This mowing is usually ok for outfields but rarely sufficient for infields.  Teams have almost always mowed their own infields. Usually teams are also responsible for weeding the backstops and occassionally for other routine maintenance.

We expect nothing less from teams that are using the land that we have recently leased. We will brush hog it.  It will be cut as short as we can, teams are expected to mow it shorter if they wish.  You may also need to rake it, weeed, etc..  It is simply a basic requirement of borrowing land.

Please likewise respect the other property around our practice areas.  Do not trespass onto other property to practice.  Lets be good neighbors.

If unsure of the rules on BAYB leased or agreed to property, where you practice, e-mail us and ask.

I truly wish we had the resources to provide and maintain every team a manicured field for practice, we simply do not.  Until then we are doing the best that we can and I hope to improve our practice situation each year.

Sincerely,

David Hays