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  • Jersey's ace of baseball diamond is tops in soil (Provides dirt to most baseball teams)

    04/21/2005 9:35:07 PM PDT · by Coleus · 7 replies · 1,187+ views
    Newark Star Ledger ^ | 04.05.05 | MIKE FRASSINELLI
    For something so vital to the game of baseball, dirt sure does get a bad rap. Players spend far more time on the dirt in the batter's box, pitcher's mound and infield than they do on grass, but no one ever recalls their first visit to Yankee Stadium with a teary-eyed description of the base paths. And they didn't call the Kevin Costner movie "Dirt of Dreams." Yet to hear a Warren County farmer explain it, making the perfect baseball dirt is an art. Meet Jim Kelsey of Independence Township, the DaVinci of Dirt. He supplies the reddish/orange clay that...