Week 11 Theme Retry

We arrived at the baseball field. There was no outfield fence. Left field was backed by bracken and woods. Center field merged into a hill, which fell down into a soccer field. If it was hit there, keep running. Right field terminated in a hill rising up about twenty feet in fair ground, then several large trees and a house, then a road right behind it.

Directly behind the batter was the white school. I had difficulty in right field seeing the ball off the bat.

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We arrived at the baseball field. This one at least had an outfield fence, even though it was one of those collapsible mesh ones, that if you touched it it would fall over. The fence also served as the fence for the softball field, and behind that, was the beach, then the ocean.

There was no out of play fence along the side, just a line which at one point went right through a huge tree. So you could rob a ball from a tree. Just out of play was a paved street, on the other side of which were the college buildings. A few windows almost got taken out.

The right field fence was a wooden farm style fence, with a yard directly abutting it. At one point during the game, some adults with little kids came out of the gate, and walked directly through the outfield, and play had to be stopped, while the umpire yelled "Get off the field!" at them, and they acted like they couldn't hear, and made their casual way along.

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We arrived at the baseball field. It was Mansfield Stadium.