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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DPR should be renamed the Department of Baseball. DPR has roughly 110 fields in its inventory and slightly under two thirds of them are reserved for baseball or other "diamond sports." The last time DPR released information on the makeup of its permit applicants, less than 15% of the participants played diamond sports, yet they get the lion's share of the space. The other 85% of the players play "rectangle" sports -- soccer, lacrosse, ultimate -- and have to fight for the scraps.

DPR has a number of multi-configuration fields that can be used as either a diamond or a rectangle. DPR systematically privileges baseball on those fields, even though the demand is overwhelmingly in the opposite direction.

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OP here -  I just looked this up.  I found 177 fields in inventory - 70 for baseball and 98 for rectangular use.  Of the 70 for baseball - only 11 were 90' diamonds which are needed for high school play.   I agree we need more rectangular fields but I don't think that number of large baseball fields is insane in a city our size.

If you have other sources of data - would love to see. [/quote]

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