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[quote=Anonymous]Turtle Park has a baseball field, Hearst has a soccer field.

According to DPR, roughly 20,000 kids participate in activities at DPR facilities each season. Of those, roughly 10,000 play soccer, 1500 play baseball, and 8500 play other sports. Only the 1500 baseball players use "diamonds," the rest use "rectangles." So how does the inventory of "diamonds" compare to "rectangles"?

You can see the DPR field inventory here:
https://dpr.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dpr/page_content/attachments/DPR%20Athletic%20FIeld%20Inventory_0.pdf

DPR has 113 fields, of which 65 are diamonds and 48 are rectangles.  Yes, the sport with 15% of the players gets two thirds of the fields.

There is no diamond that is heavily used compared to the level of use the rectangles get. As others have noted, on weekends Hearst is in continuous use from morning until dark. As is Hardy, and Palisades, and Fort Reno, and Stoddert -- and every rectangle in the area. Ten games a day on Saturday is the norm. Meanwhile, a baseball field will be considered heavily used if has two games in the same day.[/quote]

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