In Abington, PA our HS baseball field was right next to a water treatment plant and a police shooting range. So on a windy day you could stand in the outfield, smell shit and hear the pop pop pop of small arms fire. Good times
I played golf of a course next to a firing range. You heard it the whole time so it didn't really startle you mid swing. But it was annoying enough where i'd never play there again.
Jon T I’m from Old Forge, I’ve played at that field recently and I can vouch for the scent of shit. However, never heard any shots. Interesting experience.
There's a high school baseball field in the county that I live where right field is so shallow that any ball hit over the fence is only a single and any runners on base can only advance one base. It's ridiculous, especially for left handed hitters.
I believe it! There was a school called Northern that we used to play against and right field was really shallow but had a high fence. Good for lefties obviously but I hit two oppo there if that gives ya a since. One was a curveball...
My dad played against Conotton Valley High School in Eastern Ohio backing the 70's. The old field had railroad tracks running through the outfield. They had to stop a game for 10 minutes once for a coal train to pass through.
1:23 Thought you were about to get really graphic about someone from the visiting team splitting their life open on the corner of the building at top speed lol
@@theburningtankman9411 Yeah, I do miss the odd shaped MLB fields that used to exist after watching this. Would make it more interesting if it was encouraged
@@tomvolz3760 In pro ball yeah usually but in little league/high school there are usually more righties than lefties and getting it to the outfield is harder (especially in little league) so the right fielder usually sees the least action of anyone on the field.
@@drquack3671 I used to play tournament baseball in middle school in the Summers and every kid's favorite tournament every summer was in Manteca in California. Where you play on a bunch of replica baseball fields with these large dugouts and the infield was all turf and outfield was grass. The had fields like old tiger's stadium, old Yankee stadium, Fenway Park (my favorite as a Sox fan), and the Angel's stadium. It was all so fun and insane.
Yay, El Camino made the list! A couple of things about that one, because I've played there a few times in my life... and I was a center fielder: 1) When I played there (circa 2003-2006), the corners didn't use to cut off like they do now. The field used to just be a big right triangle, and be like 360 feet down the lines or something. 2) Regarding the center field wall, clearing the wall and hitting the trees is a ground rule double, but CLEARING the trees (to the umpire's discretion) is actually a home run. It's funny that our team always had an adage for some of our flyouts/lineouts to center field in other parks though, where on a medium-deep fly we'd say: "That's a double at El Camino," or a sharp liner we'd say: "That's a single at El Camino." 3) Center field didn't have a warning track so to speak, but the area where the grass meets the fence has a few feet of dirt before it where the descending slope begins, and as everyone knows: where there are trees, there are roots. That's right, there were roots basically as our warning track to that fence, which made rolling an ankle a big possibility each time you were out there. Anyway, to your point about them perhaps wanting to push the basketball and tennis courts differently, they can't really do that. Behind the outfield fence is a hill that goes DOWN to the tennis courts. So unless you're planning on doing a bunch more landscaping, it just won't work. They really did fit it the best they could, which is a bizarre one indeed. 4) You can't see the cemetery from the field at all. If I didn't move near there later in my life or if I didn't have Google Maps, I wouldn't have even known that it was there. Behind the first base dugout is a massive upward slope (those bleachers behind the dugout are about 20 feet above field level), and we essentially knew that foul balls back that way were tough to get because it was very separated from the field by fences and slopes galore. No one is going to foul a ball into the dead; it is simply too far away. Regardless, even though it's not the Golden Gate National Cemetery (which is right nearby), it's still a pretty inviting and beautiful establishment to tour. It doesn't feel "scary" or "haunted" at all. If you've been there, you know what I'm talking about. 5) One thing not mentioned (and probably true of other parks, but not sure), I always felt claustrophobic batting there because there was ALMOST NO FOUL GROUND WHATSOEVER. Running to first base, the dugout is right on top of you. It's crazy, they've really cramped it all up. All told though, I actually enjoyed playing there for its unique characteristics. Not as a home ballpark, but just once a year was cool enough for me. Being in center field, I tried to do the kinds of things that they were talking about in the video, but it was also important for me to play deep because the corner outfielders would cover a little more line, and balls would deaden off the chain link fence. My best two accomplishments there were forcing a guy out at second base on a routine ground ball single up the middle (because I was close enough) and deking a baserunner when the ball went off the fence but I was playing like I was going to catch it, holding the runners only at 1st and 2nd. EDIT: Looking at it now on Google Maps, they've changed a lot of that field. The bleachers are now at field level, and the dugouts are far away from home plate. Interesting renovations.
I went to El Camino high school. Graduated in 2002, still live a few blocks away (you can probably see my house in the zoom out). I swear, I never saw more than 6 people playing on those tennis courts.
Justino _ it’s true i played my last game of the season there this year before corona ended it and two foul ball were hit into the cemetery center you’re basically up against the fence and theres that 40ft wall in center it’s so bad
@@Tarv1 nah they suck. i don't play tennis but my school always beats el camino in tennis, and their baseball field isn't too bad it's just really short in center
@@dimitrisking8458 yeah elco sucks at eveything, i don’t play tennis either but i think we’ve beat them in all our sports and out school is pretty ass as wel
I went to old brick and we played south in football he is not lying the football field is literally 20 feet away from the jail lol when you play there you can see the prison guards standing on the roof watching the games
I kinda dig most of these, they're all very charming in their own weird way; reminds me of looking back on some of the parks in the _early_ days of pro ball when they'd just fit a diamond and a grandstand into whatever square of land they could find - like how Braves Field in Boston just had one corner in right-center that was 520' away from home plate, or the Baker Bowl's 281' right foul pole, with the 60' fence to negate it, among many other quirks.
@@TurdFurgeson275 Mine was rubber and on the bounce, but the concept of standing in center field and getting taken out by a discus is hilarious. Who designs this shit? We also had a javelin area in deep right, but at least they were throwing in the direction of the parking lot and not towards the field.
The one with the shallow center field needs to install a "Green Monster" of it's own, large enough to compensate the shallow outfield. I think that would be kind of sweet actually.
Newton Conover High School in Newton NC has a center field that was something like 500 ft to dead center. The big problem was there was a 25 foot hill with a 6 foot fence out there too. I never saw a single home run there to center or left field. Right field was amazingly short though.
That is the Burbank varsity field. We smacked them every time we played there cuz our team was full of lefties. Also one of our guys hit a ball through a window across the street in left. Absolute moonshot.
Can confirm. Burbank Alumni here. Major Leaguer Freddie Sanchez and I played on that field. It wasn’t always like that, and they’d play on the track until my sophomore year (1992). Then they wanted to install synthetic track and fenced off the ballfield.
I'm from Panama and from all the times I've crossed the Bridge of the Americas I never even saw that baseball field before, dude that's some genius designing there 😂
You should take a peek at Tigard High School in Oregon, I played a few games there in high school. The outfield is literally a football field, they combined them to save money on AstroTurf.
2:53 There's not just one big ol' cemetery by El Camino High. The cemetery you can hit a foul ball into is in the neighboring town of Colma. Colma is where San Francisco moved all of their graves to as the city expanded West. The dead there outnumber the living 1000 to 1.
Hey! I played for Burbank High and we definitely had league games on that field. I saw one of the nastiest accidents in a game ever before the rt field fence was up and a centerfielder was running full speed for a fly ball over the track and ran face first into a soccer goal!😳🤦🏻♂️🤯
Lol El Camino made the list, I had a game there my sophomore year. Hit a single down the left field line. The hardest part was for all the players to warm up before the game, there wasn’t a lot of room to just play catch
i literally go to el camino right now and play baseball for them. some more fun facts about that field are that the foul poles were placed inside the fence so you can run into them catching a flyball, and there is about 5 feet of foul territory before you run into the fence. and yes we do play league games there.
There’s a school called “The Heights School” in Potomac Maryland. In right field there’s a hill that goes up at an 80 degree angle about 20 feet. The fence is on top of this hill. By far the weirdest field I’ve played on
2:25 you don't even need a center fielder. With that kind of center field you can just have 2 outfielders and run the kind of shifts that MLB salivates over.
I played and practiced at the one in Panama. I actually hit the column of the bridge during a game pretty high up. In my mind it would have gone out as I had 3 HR’s that year and it felt like it on that swing, but I think it was actually ruled a ground rule single. Not a double, but a single. It was cool to could see all kinds of ships passing by through the canal, just behind the outfield.
you halfwitted whack a doodle...know what ur talking about before flappin ur gums. no nuclear waste anything in toms river. ciba geigy a dye making plant buried drums on their property near a river running thru their property. downstream was the wells from which the water company drew water from to process. big lawsuit concerning cancer due to the contamination when drums leaked and seeped into river.
I can literally visualize the conversation when some of these fields were installed. “Okay, so we ran out of space for a typical baseball field, so, you’ll just have to make do with what we have left.”
There’s a school called “The Heights School” in Potomac Maryland. In right field there’s a hill that goes up at an 80 degree angle about 20 feet. The fence is on top of this hill. By far the weirdest field I’ve played on
I played on a field with a building in it and one time I witnessed a guy misjudge where the building was and hit that thing so hard he concussed himself
I've umpired on that field in Burbank, CA and I can assure you they DO play their games there. It's actually a lot of fun to do night games on that field.
Thing is about these fields is that every kid is thinking "I'm gunna hit a bomb today" and most of them can't even hit a pop fly to right center. Like maybe 2 or 3 players could get lucky, but most of these kids in high school are just praying. Also, when you try to hit a HR, you usually don't. Also, both teams have the same advantage so it actually makes the game fun. I loved playing on these weird fields.
I remember playing on a slew of those fenceless fields back in JV ball.... Ironically one time the worst defender was in right and I hit a line drive over his head for the homerun which technically ISN'T an inside the park homerun...
My high school baseball field was notoriously weird too. Right field was super short - maybe 250 down the line. It was also a faculty parking lot back then, so a home run had a good chance of denting a teacher's car. In center field was the gym, also about 250. If you bounced the ball off the grey shingles, it was a ground rule double, if it bounced off the white paint, it was a home run, and if it landed on the roof it was a home run. Left field stretched essentially to infinity with no fence (at the time). The only way to hit a home run to left was to leg it out. If you hit it over the left fielder, you had a pretty good chance at a homer though. The field is at Polytechnic School in Pasadena, CA if anyone wants to look it up. Sometimes we would get to practice or play across the street at Caltech, which had a normal field.
I played at that Shitty El Camino HS in South City. The home team’s slugging %s were through the roof. FYI. All the tombstones are just a drop in the bucket as far as the dead is concern. That city/ area is called Colma and it has 1.5 Million graves: DiMaggio, McCovey, Wyatt Earp and Levi Strauss are buried there.
Yeah seriously. Exactly my thought too! I’m from Fox River Grove, and used to play in LZ at Braemar Park, which apparently has soccer fields running through the outfield now???
In little league football we had an away game where the 15 yard line all the way back to the end zone was literally going up a hill. The deeper you got on that side of the endzone, the better chance you had catching the ball over the defender. They tried to fit three fields in such a small park.
One middle school field I played at was literally a ditch, potholes every where, got more winded just trying to run the incline up to the sidelines from the huddle, at the time I believe the local high school also played there, but later they did get a decent field to play on
As a child our backyard was used for basketball, baseball, wiffleball, football, frisbee, swinging, wrestling, running, tumbling, golf, volleyball, croquet, badminton, Jarts, bicycling, tag, hide 'n seek, camping, bonfires, firefly collecting, and an occasional cookout or picnic, sometimes several things at once. We had some apple trees and a pear tree and some grape vines as well and I even grew some pot later on as I got older. A baseball game and track meet at one time is small potatoes.
These fields remind me of the baseball field in Durham, NC where the Durham Bulls use to play. This would be the field where the movie Bull Durham was filmed. There was a big dip in the center outfield and created challenges for players when running to catch a fly ball.
Of course there’s still nothing as weird as the University of Texas’ old Clark Field, which had an actual fifteen-foot cliff running through the middle of the outfield, with a single path up to the top. They played on that until 1974.
I used to play Left Field in Middle School, and we would always play on this field where ALL of Left Field was about 5-6 Feet downhill from the entire Infield. You could only see the Left Fielder's head from the 1st Base Dugout, and it really screwed with my perspective as a 13 year old playing on a "regulation field" for the 1st time.
1:30 the center fielder would probably cover the center field bounce and the right fielder would cover the corner. I bet the teams that have to play there practice these things lol
Lol, I went to Burbank high, and played ball there. Can't believe our school made it in this video, but yeah, our field was weird af. And yes, we did actually use it.
The boy locker rooms used to have a giant trap door that you could open if you had enough people to lift it and we joked that it was dug by someone who escaped from prison lmao
Reminds me of my elementary school, where when they need more room for classes they just plop another portable building onto the baseball field. The last time I saw it there is basically no left field anymore lol Granted its elementary school so it doesnt matter as much, but its still used for little league practice from time to time.
My high school JV field is similar to that field where we got the P.E. locker rooms in left and left centerfield acting as Fenways green monster you also have to avoid the steps that stick out from the building when chasing a ball down. Reedley high school if any of yall wanna check it out, not the worst field in California
I actually played at the el Camino field and it is just as wierd as you can imagine it, but the reason why they don’t extend center field is that it is a pretty steep hill going down to the tennis courts
The field at burbank is used and it’s their varsity field, I just finished my senior year of baseball playing and when you play there the fence is like 30-40 feet tall but yes it’s a game field and dead center is like 400 with a 15-25 foot tall fence. The field was shoved in there and there is practically no backstop
There used to be a backstop there. Across town at Burroughs high, they had a backstop that was way deep. A runner could take two bases on a wild pitch over there.
My favourite is the baseball field in the movie "Brewster's Millions" that had the railroad track running through the outfield. The ump would have to call time when a train came through.
Back in the 80's the Cleveland Indians double A team played on a high school field in Waterbury Connecticut. Cory Snyder played on that team. The field was placed on a high school football field with stands only down the first base line, and the track ran partially through the outfield at points. The cool things was, you could stand within inches of the visitor's dugout down the third base line and the players would often warm up on the other side of the fence -you could literally have a catch with double A players. My father and I went to about a dozen games between 85 and 86, the teams last season there. Craziest professional field I have ever seen.
I played there, too. But, I remember there wasn't a wall for the track and field. I believe it was a short concrete curb type thing. Because, I actually remember I was standing on the track playing center field at the time. It was the late 90's though. That's their varsity field though everybody talked shit about it
I played in Saugerties NY and they were huge on baseball. We had an entire complex called Cantine Field that was just a collection of different baseball fields. Amazing place to grow up playing!
Jomboy so glad I came across this video. My brother and I won a High School state championship his senior my sophomore year of high school. The game the Championship was at was Toms River South. The second field you have covered. Awesome and funny field to play at!
Whole new meaning to "track and field"
That field would be a nightmare to play baseball on. Jesus
Track in field 😅
The damn stock car ran wide and left a drift path down the center of the field but good thing is it’s really noticeable so y’all won’t trip
There was one ?
“Track the ball while simultaneously watching the field so you don’t trip on concrete”
5:10 When you got a no hitter going, but it gets broken up by a 4x100m relay.
he hits it back with the baton like a baseball bat
“no u”
Speed comes to the ballpark everyday.
LOL!
Really gives a whole new meaning to Track and Field
"Beat the freeze"
In Abington, PA our HS baseball field was right next to a water treatment plant and a police shooting range. So on a windy day you could stand in the outfield, smell shit and hear the pop pop pop of small arms fire. Good times
I played golf of a course next to a firing range. You heard it the whole time so it didn't really startle you mid swing. But it was annoying enough where i'd never play there again.
Capital Strength that’s cap as fuck my g nice try though kiddo
Jon T I’m from Old Forge, I’ve played at that field recently and I can vouch for the scent of shit. However, never heard any shots. Interesting experience.
@Dev JB I agree
I'm loling.
This is what MLB the show 21 is going to look like with stadium creator..
Hopefully it gives that much freedom.
@@bradkirchhoff3751 you must have not played online before
Lmao home run derbies for days
This didn’t age well.
😂
4:40 Rumour has it the coach was so livid with the players he literally had a track installed on the field so they could run laps.
"Put your worst defender in right field"
Me realizing that was my position for the single year I played baseball 😵
Well I guess we know what you were on the team 😅
Thats bc u only played 1 year. Whered u expect to play? Lol u gta get better to play harder positions.
@@bradkirchhoff3751 I was fucking 6. The other kids werent Barry bonds
@@bradkirchhoff3751 my 5 year old sister was on my team. She must have been better than me too.
@@mrdgenerate Probably if you're playing on the girl's squad.
Toms River South's Football field is backed up to a prison, we could hear them yell during games at us.
I go there lol
Oh the memories of play Toms River
A VIP section
That's very interesting and I live next door to Toms River and didn't know that. Thank you.
They yell at you?
There's a high school baseball field in the county that I live where right field is so shallow that any ball hit over the fence is only a single and any runners on base can only advance one base. It's ridiculous, especially for left handed hitters.
Cam PatsFan are you saying that would be my only chance in my life to hit one over the fence and it wouldn’t even be a homerun
So it'd actually be better to hit the wall, lol,
What’s the name so I can google it
Tell us the name of the school. I find it hard to believe its THAT shallow. But it's just so ridiculous it must be true
I believe it! There was a school called Northern that we used to play against and right field was really shallow but had a high fence. Good for lefties obviously but I hit two oppo there if that gives ya a since. One was a curveball...
My dad played against Conotton Valley High School in Eastern Ohio backing the 70's. The old field had railroad tracks running through the outfield. They had to stop a game for 10 minutes once for a coal train to pass through.
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That seems like even worse of an idea than any of these. How did nobody ever trip over the railroad tracks while running after a ball?
@@Mentally_Will Maybe they had covers for it? Something you slide into the tracks that make them flat
Imagine if you're running to get a flyball and then you run into a train
Brewster's Millions in real life.
1:23 Thought you were about to get really graphic about someone from the visiting team splitting their life open on the corner of the building at top speed lol
I thought he was going to envision a hit that was high and deep that broke the glass roof
@@theburningtankman9411 Yeah, I do miss the odd shaped MLB fields that used to exist after watching this. Would make it more interesting if it was encouraged
Sounds like you got a weird mind then dude. Didn't sound like that at all.
"worst defender in right field". I'm in this quote and I don't like it
Same. Right field was my like only position
Same as well but fuck it, enjoyed playing the game
I always thought that left field was the worst outfielder. Or that just the worst arm?
Tom Volz in the pros it’s left. I suppose in high school and below its right because you don’t see righties go oppo.
@@tomvolz3760 In pro ball yeah usually but in little league/high school there are usually more righties than lefties and getting it to the outfield is harder (especially in little league) so the right fielder usually sees the least action of anyone on the field.
Wow, we have high schoolers playing on replica Polo Grounds
Where? That's insane!
My highschool had our football field in right field. The left field pole was 270 feet, right field was over 700 feet.
Ripken Experience in Myrtle Beach?
@@drquack3671 I used to play tournament baseball in middle school in the Summers and every kid's favorite tournament every summer was in Manteca in California. Where you play on a bunch of replica baseball fields with these large dugouts and the infield was all turf and outfield was grass. The had fields like old tiger's stadium, old Yankee stadium, Fenway Park (my favorite as a Sox fan), and the Angel's stadium. It was all so fun and insane.
Elite_Royalty58 yeah but that’s not an exact replica kind of like Griffith
Yay, El Camino made the list! A couple of things about that one, because I've played there a few times in my life... and I was a center fielder:
1) When I played there (circa 2003-2006), the corners didn't use to cut off like they do now. The field used to just be a big right triangle, and be like 360 feet down the lines or something.
2) Regarding the center field wall, clearing the wall and hitting the trees is a ground rule double, but CLEARING the trees (to the umpire's discretion) is actually a home run. It's funny that our team always had an adage for some of our flyouts/lineouts to center field in other parks though, where on a medium-deep fly we'd say: "That's a double at El Camino," or a sharp liner we'd say: "That's a single at El Camino."
3) Center field didn't have a warning track so to speak, but the area where the grass meets the fence has a few feet of dirt before it where the descending slope begins, and as everyone knows: where there are trees, there are roots. That's right, there were roots basically as our warning track to that fence, which made rolling an ankle a big possibility each time you were out there.
Anyway, to your point about them perhaps wanting to push the basketball and tennis courts differently, they can't really do that. Behind the outfield fence is a hill that goes DOWN to the tennis courts. So unless you're planning on doing a bunch more landscaping, it just won't work. They really did fit it the best they could, which is a bizarre one indeed.
4) You can't see the cemetery from the field at all. If I didn't move near there later in my life or if I didn't have Google Maps, I wouldn't have even known that it was there. Behind the first base dugout is a massive upward slope (those bleachers behind the dugout are about 20 feet above field level), and we essentially knew that foul balls back that way were tough to get because it was very separated from the field by fences and slopes galore. No one is going to foul a ball into the dead; it is simply too far away. Regardless, even though it's not the Golden Gate National Cemetery (which is right nearby), it's still a pretty inviting and beautiful establishment to tour. It doesn't feel "scary" or "haunted" at all. If you've been there, you know what I'm talking about.
5) One thing not mentioned (and probably true of other parks, but not sure), I always felt claustrophobic batting there because there was ALMOST NO FOUL GROUND WHATSOEVER. Running to first base, the dugout is right on top of you. It's crazy, they've really cramped it all up.
All told though, I actually enjoyed playing there for its unique characteristics. Not as a home ballpark, but just once a year was cool enough for me. Being in center field, I tried to do the kinds of things that they were talking about in the video, but it was also important for me to play deep because the corner outfielders would cover a little more line, and balls would deaden off the chain link fence. My best two accomplishments there were forcing a guy out at second base on a routine ground ball single up the middle (because I was close enough) and deking a baserunner when the ball went off the fence but I was playing like I was going to catch it, holding the runners only at 1st and 2nd.
EDIT: Looking at it now on Google Maps, they've changed a lot of that field. The bleachers are now at field level, and the dugouts are far away from home plate. Interesting renovations.
Brandon Robinson thanks for sharing man that’s actually super interesting!
Thanks for sharing bro that was interesting
that’s a double at el camino😂😂😂
@@iamjp1 Hahaha right? That's always the saying.
that's cool... btw u look like that romeo guy from the old steve harvey show
I went to Burbank High School and we absolutely played there.
I go there too
Umm cool...
im going to Burroughs
@@acsept2475 Beat Burbank! Indians all the way!
Same! When did you go there? I was there 15 years ago
“Worst defender is the right fielder” me having played left bench my whole career and idolizing the right fielder 😂
L
Operative words were "play your worst defender".
Yeah right field is pretty much my only position this year so I don’t know
Blair high school has a track running through center field with no fences (Pasadena)
Haha yeah, I used to live right by Blair.
@@MrJonsonville5 yep same I live minuted from there, even played there a couple times
What a hilariously bad design haha.
@@airtimetv3922 ah cool I used to live on Euclid and California basically.
I played against Blair in high school. That was always a pad the stats game against them . Very brutal.
In south san francisco we have a joke that whenever someone pops up we say “Its a double at El Camino”
lol u go to south city?
So is it impossible to hit a home run there?
Damn that's awesome lol.
@@jakedaddio8909 a popup
So whether it being a popup to the pitcher or a popup to the shortstop lol
They don’t call it South Shity for nothing. I live there btw
I went to El Camino high school. Graduated in 2002, still live a few blocks away (you can probably see my house in the zoom out).
I swear, I never saw more than 6 people playing on those tennis courts.
Those looks like some nice courts tho
Me: never watched or played baseball in my life
Also me: “Ah yes, what a terrible field!”
Playing is fine. Batting is fun as hell. Watching is only fun if you're in the stands.
Hahahahahahhahha
@@omgvague or listening to this guy
how the hell did you get here then lol
How does one never watch baseball before
I played at Burbank High. Not only did Varsity and JV play at that field, but we also didn't even have enough players to even have a freshman team.
this was fun
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@@superintendentmike492 you ain’t foolin nobody
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When you didn't expect 5points on a video but he shows up anyways
😯🤩
“You can hit a foul ball into the dead” now I’m 💀
lmaooo
Now that's what I call a "dead ball"
Justino _ it’s true i played my last game of the season there this year before corona ended it and two foul ball were hit into the cemetery center you’re basically up against the fence and theres that 40ft wall in center it’s so bad
May you rest in peace.
Fun fact: Joe Dimaggio is buried in that cemetery. People leave balls, bats, and gloves around his tombstone.
I legit played against Burbank and yes, they do actually play on that field
It doesn't look that bad I go hiking nearby just the warning track is super tall
So is it endless homeruns?
Don’t forget right field goes UP to the track, about an 8ft incline.
@@cristianchavira8591 if your a lefty yes
@@cristianchavira8591 i play on that fiedl
1:57 they took the “diamond” shape literally in this field
2:18 why do you need that many tennis courts??😂😂
bet the school is a lot better at tennis
@@Tarv1 nah they suck. i don't play tennis but my school always beats el camino in tennis, and their baseball field isn't too bad it's just really short in center
@@dimitrisking8458 :thumbsup:
@@dimitrisking8458 yeah elco sucks at eveything, i don’t play tennis either but i think we’ve beat them in all our sports and out school is pretty ass as wel
I went to Toms River south. FYI the football field is literally right next to a jail lmaoo
Jef. E I played you guys. I played for Williamstown
Toms River terrible in general
I got pelted by a softball while playing tennis against your school (I went to Southern). Couldnt swing my arm the entire game lmao
Only in......Jersey!!
I went to old brick and we played south in football he is not lying the football field is literally 20 feet away from the jail lol when you play there you can see the prison guards standing on the roof watching the games
I kinda dig most of these, they're all very charming in their own weird way; reminds me of looking back on some of the parks in the _early_ days of pro ball when they'd just fit a diamond and a grandstand into whatever square of land they could find - like how Braves Field in Boston just had one corner in right-center that was 520' away from home plate, or the Baker Bowl's 281' right foul pole, with the 60' fence to negate it, among many other quirks.
My high school field had a discus circle in deep center, I got hit in the calf by a discus when I was in center during practice one day.
That just adds character
Mantis Toboggan I got hit in the knee with a metal discus. Surprisingly it didn’t shatter my entire kneecap.
@@TurdFurgeson275 Mine was rubber and on the bounce, but the concept of standing in center field and getting taken out by a discus is hilarious. Who designs this shit? We also had a javelin area in deep right, but at least they were throwing in the direction of the parking lot and not towards the field.
The one with the shallow center field needs to install a "Green Monster" of it's own, large enough to compensate the shallow outfield. I think that would be kind of sweet actually.
Newton Conover High School in Newton NC has a center field that was something like 500 ft to dead center. The big problem was there was a 25 foot hill with a 6 foot fence out there too. I never saw a single home run there to center or left field. Right field was amazingly short though.
Couldn't believe Pomperaug High was the school you showed at the end. We, the high school PE teachers at PHS, are fans of your videos!
That is the Burbank varsity field. We smacked them every time we played there cuz our team was full of lefties. Also one of our guys hit a ball through a window across the street in left. Absolute moonshot.
Our team had 5 lefty starters. Their best pitcher threw BP fastballs at best. Salivating.
Can confirm. Burbank Alumni here.
Major Leaguer Freddie Sanchez and I played on that field. It wasn’t always like that, and they’d play on the track until my sophomore year (1992). Then they wanted to install synthetic track and fenced off the ballfield.
Joshua Yoon did you go to Burroughs?
Played against them too for Glendale High. Thats their field
3Bcrown I’m a freshmen and my teammate hit it 275 right center and he pimped that shit lmao
I'm from Panama and from all the times I've crossed the Bridge of the Americas I never even saw that baseball field before, dude that's some genius designing there 😂
Cancha de la umip ahora la usan de fútbol las que todo, el infiel no tiene tierra así que parece un lote
You should take a peek at Tigard High School in Oregon, I played a few games there in high school. The outfield is literally a football field, they combined them to save money on AstroTurf.
Thank you for that. My roommate and I got a great laugh out of google earthing that one.
I used to play against El Camino all the time. Clear one fence for a ground rule double and both for a homerun
how’s elcos baseball team? we whooped their softball teams ass along with all their other sports too, so i imagine their not great
@@aubrey5572 really really really really really bad baseball team ahahaha
@@savaunbrown ohh yeah i imagined lol our sports aren’t great and we still beat them in everything haha
My dad went to El Camino High School in South San Francisco and pitched a no hitter on that whack ass field!
2:53 There's not just one big ol' cemetery by El Camino High. The cemetery you can hit a foul ball into is in the neighboring town of Colma. Colma is where San Francisco moved all of their graves to as the city expanded West. The dead there outnumber the living 1000 to 1.
Holy Cross is also the final resting place of the great Joe DiMaggio.
Colma's slogan is "It's good to be alive in Colma!"
was just about to comment this lol colma is my favorite weird bay area thing
Girlfriend: "Why are you looking at your old highschool field on google earth."
Me: "EVERYONE COOL IS DOING IT"
3:31 played a match on those tennis courts and saw the weird field lol
Hey! I played for Burbank High and we definitely had league games on that field. I saw one of the nastiest accidents in a game ever before the rt field fence was up and a centerfielder was running full speed for a fly ball over the track and ran face first into a soccer goal!😳🤦🏻♂️🤯
Lol El Camino made the list, I had a game there my sophomore year. Hit a single down the left field line. The hardest part was for all the players to warm up before the game, there wasn’t a lot of room to just play catch
i literally go to el camino right now and play baseball for them. some more fun facts about that field are that the foul poles were placed inside the fence so you can run into them catching a flyball, and there is about 5 feet of foul territory before you run into the fence. and yes we do play league games there.
I used to go to woodside high... i truly despise your field hahaha
3:22 Yes Jomboy I can confirm they do play games there, my team played against Burbank HS on that field a few months ago.
Do you go to burrows
AirTime TV what school do you go to I go to Burroughs atm and the but and field is complete ass
There’s a school called “The Heights School” in Potomac Maryland. In right field there’s a hill that goes up at an 80 degree angle about 20 feet. The fence is on top of this hill. By far the weirdest field I’ve played on
@@jack.7816 *Burroughs
@@motnosniv bro shut up, no one goes to burroughs
2:25 you don't even need a center fielder. With that kind of center field you can just have 2 outfielders and run the kind of shifts that MLB salivates over.
I played and practiced at the one in Panama. I actually hit the column of the bridge during a game pretty high up. In my mind it would have gone out as I had 3 HR’s that year and it felt like it on that swing, but I think it was actually ruled a ground rule single. Not a double, but a single. It was cool to could see all kinds of ships passing by through the canal, just behind the outfield.
Oh Tom's River. The years of nuclear dumping is even showing in their school landscapes
@@Doorknobz they had a nuclear waste fiasco years ago where their water was getting polluted with the waste
There used to be concrete steps in center so at least we’re getting better 😂
Lol... it wasn’t nuclear waste
you halfwitted whack a doodle...know what ur talking about before flappin ur gums. no nuclear waste anything in toms river. ciba geigy a dye making plant buried drums on their property near a river running thru their property. downstream was the wells from which the water company drew water from to process. big lawsuit concerning cancer due to the contamination when drums leaked and seeped into river.
Also, Doolittle didn’t play there.
I can literally visualize the conversation when some of these fields were installed.
“Okay, so we ran out of space for a typical baseball field, so, you’ll just have to make do with what we have left.”
There’s a school called “The Heights School” in Potomac Maryland. In right field there’s a hill that goes up at an 80 degree angle about 20 feet. The fence is on top of this hill. By far the weirdest field I’ve played on
sounds like they took the name of the school a bit too seriously
We have similar in Springfield Illinois at the sports complex. They designed them after the Houston cf.
But the hill appears to be in foul territory. So who cares.
@@nate_storm lmaooo ah that was good
2:55
Whole new meaning to “baseball diamond.”
I played on a field with a building in it and one time I witnessed a guy misjudge where the building was and hit that thing so hard he concussed himself
One of my favorite things to do while flying, especially cross-country, would be to spot baseball fields from the sky if you could.
I've umpired on that field in Burbank, CA and I can assure you they DO play their games there. It's actually a lot of fun to do night games on that field.
Thing is about these fields is that every kid is thinking "I'm gunna hit a bomb today" and most of them can't even hit a pop fly to right center. Like maybe 2 or 3 players could get lucky, but most of these kids in high school are just praying. Also, when you try to hit a HR, you usually don't. Also, both teams have the same advantage so it actually makes the game fun. I loved playing on these weird fields.
I still remember striking out in tee ball trying to blast it over the fence lmao
It’s like playing at Fenway. 😀 Way more fun than an enormous stadium.
I remember playing on a slew of those fenceless fields back in JV ball.... Ironically one time the worst defender was in right and I hit a line drive over his head for the homerun which technically ISN'T an inside the park homerun...
My high school baseball field was notoriously weird too. Right field was super short - maybe 250 down the line. It was also a faculty parking lot back then, so a home run had a good chance of denting a teacher's car. In center field was the gym, also about 250. If you bounced the ball off the grey shingles, it was a ground rule double, if it bounced off the white paint, it was a home run, and if it landed on the roof it was a home run. Left field stretched essentially to infinity with no fence (at the time). The only way to hit a home run to left was to leg it out. If you hit it over the left fielder, you had a pretty good chance at a homer though. The field is at Polytechnic School in Pasadena, CA if anyone wants to look it up.
Sometimes we would get to practice or play across the street at Caltech, which had a normal field.
The best part is I’ve played on both el Camino and Burbank high school fields
No Brewster’s Millions quotes? “There’s a train runnin’ through the outfield!”
I played at that Shitty El Camino HS in South City. The home team’s slugging %s were through the roof.
FYI. All the tombstones are just a drop in the bucket as far as the dead is concern. That city/ area is called Colma and it has 1.5 Million graves: DiMaggio, McCovey, Wyatt Earp and Levi Strauss are buried there.
MKN
As a SSF native, thanks for point that out. I graduated from El Camino too in 2007.
MKN yeah. Keep heading south down the road and it’s nothing but cemeteries until you hit Daly City.
I attended woodside high
That track in the outfield still isn't as bad as Oakland stadium lol
I play for burbanks team and we definitely play there including varsity and it can be funny at times
Damn, I didn't know jomboy was from lake Zurich
Paul B same lol pretty cool I played on the same field as him
I played there all the time too! Small world
I played there too. Went to Middle School South!
Same I went to Mss also. I’m in LZHS rn. Class of 22
Yeah seriously. Exactly my thought too! I’m from Fox River Grove, and used to play in LZ at Braemar Park, which apparently has soccer fields running through the outfield now???
In little league football we had an away game where the 15 yard line all the way back to the end zone was literally going up a hill. The deeper you got on that side of the endzone, the better chance you had catching the ball over the defender. They tried to fit three fields in such a small park.
One middle school field I played at was literally a ditch, potholes every where, got more winded just trying to run the incline up to the sidelines from the huddle, at the time I believe the local high school also played there, but later they did get a decent field to play on
El Camino - Now that's where I'd want to be buried. Right next to a baseball field.
funnily enough, i think joe dimaggio is buried in that very cemetery
@@peonylarkspur645 my family is buried there
As a child our backyard was used for basketball, baseball, wiffleball, football, frisbee, swinging, wrestling, running, tumbling, golf, volleyball, croquet, badminton, Jarts, bicycling, tag, hide 'n seek, camping, bonfires, firefly collecting, and an occasional cookout or picnic, sometimes several things at once. We had some apple trees and a pear tree and some grape vines as well and I even grew some pot later on as I got older. A baseball game and track meet at one time is small potatoes.
These fields remind me of the baseball field in Durham, NC where the Durham Bulls use to play. This would be the field where the movie Bull Durham was filmed. There was a big dip in the center outfield and created challenges for players when running to catch a fly ball.
I've played several times in that field in Panama, its a soccer field now. With the concrete column and all, but now thats on the sideline anyway
4:57 “We fucked up the schedual” 😂 I’m dead
From jersey. I’ve played at Toms River south. One of the weirdest feelings to play there
Mackey P same
Of course there’s still nothing as weird as the University of Texas’ old Clark Field, which had an actual fifteen-foot cliff running through the middle of the outfield, with a single path up to the top. They played on that until 1974.
I googled it... not a great photo but I get the drift. It provided a HUGE home park advantage, apparently!
I used to play Left Field in Middle School, and we would always play on this field where ALL of Left Field was about 5-6 Feet downhill from the entire Infield. You could only see the Left Fielder's head from the 1st Base Dugout, and it really screwed with my perspective as a 13 year old playing on a "regulation field" for the 1st time.
damn, i thought my high school's field being an octagon was weird, these fields are insane
Your middle school field called "Chestnut Corners" sounds straight outta Backyard Baseball 2001
or a good name for a Horse racing track or golf course
1:30 the center fielder would probably cover the center field bounce and the right fielder would cover the corner. I bet the teams that have to play there practice these things lol
We do, every outfielder learns to play the wall and throw straight to second
I’m honored that this man went to school in Connecticut lmao
The UASD stadium in Santo Domingo also has a running track meddled through 3 baseball/softball fields.
Lol, I went to Burbank high, and played ball there. Can't believe our school made it in this video, but yeah, our field was weird af. And yes, we did actually use it.
I hike nearby and the wall is super tall goodluck trying to get a homer needs super pop
didn’t know jomboy was from like 20minutes from where i live
Ian Gaw, Lets go TP his house?
I used to live in Burbank so I’d drive by that one all the time😂I always thought that was funky but they would legit play games out there!
I pass by and never noticed tbh
Just rewatched this one. Still great. Would love a followup with a few more.
I went to Burbank high and played on that field hundreds of times. They 100% play on that field. Holds a special place in my heart.
Lehman High School in the Bronx has that weird center field ground rule double thing.
James J that’s my high school 🤘🤘
Last thing I ever expected was to see my old high school field in middle of nowhere Connecticut on here
00:56 Sooo we just boutta IGNORE OCEAN COUNTY JAIL 😂
The boy locker rooms used to have a giant trap door that you could open if you had enough people to lift it and we joked that it was dug by someone who escaped from prison lmao
Former Panther here! Congratz on the success! Saw Pomperaug High had to comment. Class of '99
Lmao my high school doesn’t have a fence... you just gotta hope one rolls and have some pretty damn good legs
I can imagine someone destroying the solar panels at Toms River
Anyone remember the movie "Brewsters Millions" with the train tracks running through the outfield? Great movie btw!
Hell yeah, the Hackensack Bulls!!!!
1:03 we all played games where a school building was right on top of the field, but this is brutal. Worse than Oracle
Reminds me of my elementary school, where when they need more room for classes they just plop another portable building onto the baseball field. The last time I saw it there is basically no left field anymore lol Granted its elementary school so it doesnt matter as much, but its still used for little league practice from time to time.
My high school JV field is similar to that field where we got the P.E. locker rooms in left and left centerfield acting as Fenways green monster you also have to avoid the steps that stick out from the building when chasing a ball down. Reedley high school if any of yall wanna check it out, not the worst field in California
Their football field is against a prison too lmao
"Where's the ball"
Around the corner!
"Corner? There's no corners in baseball!"
Hanks in the House!
I actually played at the el Camino field and it is just as wierd as you can imagine it, but the reason why they don’t extend center field is that it is a pretty steep hill going down to the tennis courts
I have played in El Camino in South San Francisco- so weird
As a former HS, College, Pro baseball player and HS Coach, I appreciate this video.
The field at burbank is used and it’s their varsity field, I just finished my senior year of baseball playing and when you play there the fence is like 30-40 feet tall but yes it’s a game field and dead center is like 400 with a 15-25 foot tall fence. The field was shoved in there and there is practically no backstop
There used to be a backstop there. Across town at Burroughs high, they had a backstop that was way deep. A runner could take two bases on a wild pitch over there.
My favourite is the baseball field in the movie "Brewster's Millions" that had the railroad track running through the outfield. The ump would have to call time when a train came through.
Yes! And now Candy, Pryor, and Wilder are all dead. Legends.
Back in the 80's the Cleveland Indians double A team played on a high school field in Waterbury Connecticut. Cory Snyder played on that team. The field was placed on a high school football field with stands only down the first base line, and the track ran partially through the outfield at points. The cool things was, you could stand within inches of the visitor's dugout down the third base line and the players would often warm up on the other side of the fence -you could literally have a catch with double A players. My father and I went to about a dozen games between 85 and 86, the teams last season there. Craziest professional field I have ever seen.
21°21'29"N 157°55'46"W bro I gotchu
Radford High School Hawaii
I played at the Burbank one a couple times too, but I was little.
I played there, too. But, I remember there wasn't a wall for the track and field. I believe it was a short concrete curb type thing. Because, I actually remember I was standing on the track playing center field at the time. It was the late 90's though. That's their varsity field though everybody talked shit about it
Filed in Guthrie Oklahoma is like polo grounds they have the football field in center field
It also has a hill in right field
I played in Saugerties NY and they were huge on baseball. We had an entire complex called Cantine Field that was just a collection of different baseball fields. Amazing place to grow up playing!
Jomboy so glad I came across this video. My brother and I won a High School state championship his senior my sophomore year of high school. The game the Championship was at was Toms River South. The second field you have covered. Awesome and funny field to play at!
Please do another one of these vids!!