Wrigley Field is in the process of having the turf and drainage systems revamped. Not that you could really call the last remaining "crowned" field much of a system.
White Sox groundskeeper, Roger Bossard, is in charge of the operation. Removing 7,500 tons of dirt and lowering the field surface by 14 inches. Bossard has already completed 10 renovations of MLB parks and word is that 4 of the last 6 WS champions have used Bossard fields (Boston, St. Louis, White Sox, and Arizona).
The redo will use clay from Kansas City and sod from either Colorado or New Jersey (depending on the weather at the time of transport), that will be hauled cross country in refridgerated trucks then installed and covered with a material designed to keep the turf 7-9 degrees warmer than the ambient temperature.
Timing is critical, as anyone who has tried to grow anything knows, and Bossard is condensing a 7-week job into 4 so the renovations can be complete by the close of November.
The main question has to be what impact the disturbed ashes of deceased Cub fans will have on the Billy Goat Curse. The second important question is, of course, when will the organization be hawking small vials of the removed dirt.
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