{"id":84,"date":"2008-10-04T21:01:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T02:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/mowing-ballparks-and-milwaukee\/"},"modified":"2008-10-04T21:03:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T02:03:42","slug":"mowing-ballparks-and-milwaukee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/mowing-ballparks-and-milwaukee\/","title":{"rendered":"Mowing Ballparks and Milwaukee"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw the title of the following article and immediately suspected that Milwaukee may be mentioned, since I recalled reading long ago about the Brewers’ groundskeepers and their famous field grass designs.<\/p>\n

Groundskeepers Display Artistry on the Diamond<\/a><\/p>\n

I was right.<\/p>\n

He was an assistant groundskeeper at Milwaukee County Stadium in 1993 when a concert badly damaged the grass in the outfield. With the support of the head groundskeeper Gary Vanden Berg, Mellor mowed a busy pattern to serve as camouflage. The design, not the damage, was all anyone noticed.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I still think that was the coolest pattern he ever made,” Vanden Berg said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mellor found himself with a niche, and others followed.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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