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SPORTS FIELD
BOOKS
The Industry’s Most Comprehensive Guide
to Sports Fields
Sports
Fields
Design, Construction,
and Maintenance Second
Edition
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Recognizing
that new developments in the design, construction,
and maintenance of sports fields have literally changed
the playing field, Sports Fields, Second Edition is
now fully updated and revised to continue its legacy
as a leading authority on sports field management.
Highly illustrated, with step-by-step examination
of essential topics such as turfgrass and soil science,
sand fields, turf paints, field quality evaluation,
and weather preparedness, this in-depth guide chalks
out the ultimate game plan to integrate these elements
into a winning project.
Sports
Fields, Second Edition is endorsed by the Sports Turf
Managers Association.
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Sports
Fields
A Manual for Design,
Construction, and Maintenance
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Sportscape
International is proud to present this quality resource
for sports fields professionals, written by our president,
Jim Puhalla, along with Dr. Jeff Krans and Dr. Mike
Goatley of the Mississippi State University College
of Plant and Soil Sciences. With nearly 200 useful
illustrations, charts and tables, Sports Fields is
a valuable addition to the library of an architect,
engineer, sports field manager, or parks and recreation
supervisor.
This
outstanding book was the only one unanimously recommended
by the Sports Turf Managers Association Certification
Committee in.
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Baseball
and Softball Fields
Design, Construction, Renovation and Maintenance
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From
the writing team that created the industry’s most
comprehensive guide to sports fields, this new volume
provides practical information
specific to baseball and softball diamonds. Contributors
to this book include Major League groundskeepers,
who share their experience in managing state-of-the-art
facilities.
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| About
the Authors
Jim Puhalla
is the president of Sportscape International, Inc., a
firm specializing in the design, construction, renovation
and maintenance of sports fields and related facilities.
From its headquarters in Boardman, Ohio, Sportscape designs
and builds fields throughout North America. The company's
reconstruction of the Boardman High School field won them
a "Baseball Diamond of the Year" Award from
the Sports Turf Managers Association and Sports turf Magazine.
Jim has worked
in the sports field industry since 1978. His experience
includes sports field project management and coordination,
consulting, conceptual drawings, construction drawings
and specifications, on-site inspections, construction
supervision, and overall construction administration.
He has been engaged as a speaker for sports turf conferences
throughout the United States, and is a frequent contributor
to many sports field magazine articles.
Jeff Krans
is a former Professor of Agronomy at Mississippi State
University in the Golf and Sports Turf Management program.
He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in
1975, an M.S. degree from the University of Arizona in
1973, and his B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin
– Stevens Point in 1970. Jeff has conducted research
in turfgrass breeding and physiology. He has developed
and patented four turf-type bermudagrass cultivars; MS-Pride,
MS-Choice, MS-Express, and MS-Supreme. Jeff is a member
of the Crop Science Society of America, and the Golf Course
Superintendents Association of America.
A native of
Springfield, Kentucky, Mike Goatley is the Extension Turfgrass
Specialist at Virginia Tech. Mike received his Ph.D. from
Virginia Tech in 1988, his M.S. degree from the University
of Kentucky in 1986, and his B.S. degree from the University
of Kentucky in 1983. He has taught and advised students
in the Golf and Sports Turf Management program at Mississippi
State from 1988 to 2003 before moving to Virginia Tech.
Mike serves as the outreach coordinator for agronomic
turf sciences in Virginia and his research interests focus
on turf selection and management strategies that promote
environmental stewardship. He is very active in advisory
capacities for the Virginia Turfgrass Council and the
Virginia Sports Turf Manager’s Association and received
STMA’s William H. Daniel Founder’s Award in
2008.
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