Baseball diamonds/stadiums

[Anonymous]

Has anyone modeled these?
What size would they be for HO scale?
I'm considering doing a baseball stadium (high school-college) size.
If anyone has done this and has pics, could you post them here?
Thanks, J1

[streettrains]

I have seen a few baseball fields on layouts at some shows, both HO & N...

I don't know the measurements.. but looks like you could compress alot to make it fit

[Anonymous]

Must not be very many that do this though...

[dwRavenstar]

Unsure of the HS or College regulations but the math would be the same as for Pro fields.

87.1 feet prototype measurement equals one HO scale foot.

Pitcher's mound to home plate is 60 feet (.689ft in HO or 8.26 in)
Distance between the bases is 90 feet (1.03ft in HO or 12.4 in.)
Figuring 310 feet down the lines to the fence (3.559 ft in HO or 42.71 in.)
Straight away center could be 350 feet (4.018 ft in HO or 48.22 in.)

I've seen articles describing how long stemmed Q-tips could be colored and used for the "crowd" and WS or Preiser have ball team figures available.

All things considered, compression sounds like a good idea.
[:D]

Dave (dwRavenstar)

[knewsom]

There was a picture in one of the MR's in 2003 that showed a compressed little league ballpark. It was pretty impressive looking.

Kevin

[streettrains]

one of the clubs at the train show in Springfield had a baseball field and was used as a corner modular...

[cefinkjr]

There was a John Allen track plan in MR several years ago that featured a ball park inside a loop of track. Seemed to me like an awful waste of real estate but the railroad's owner was a big baseball fan. If I recall, his freelanced stations were named for famous players.

Chuck

[dknelson]

Somewhere deep in my memory is the thought that the NMRA had a data sheet on dimensions for a ball park. Dave Nelson

[Cox 47]

I saw a baseball park on a club layout in a hobby shop in Mt. Carmel Illinois. Don't know what happened to it? Cox 47

[jrbarney]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dknelson

Somewhere deep in my memory is the thought that the NMRA had a data sheet on dimensions for a ball park. Dave Nelson

Dave,
Wow, you have a good memory. My hard copy of DataSheet D2h, dated May 1955, and compiled by N.G. Wheeler, A.I.A., also includes dimensions for a tennis court, horseshoe pitch, shuffleboard court, football field, track events, swimming pools, and a drive-in theater. I don't have the DVD, but I suppose it is also on there as well.
The sole article cited in a keyword search at the Index of Magazines:

Abner Doubleday never intended teams to fly Trains, June 1984, page 48 when baseball teams traveled by train ( BASEBALL, "TULLY, MIKE", TRN )

reminds us to have an excursion train on the siding next to the ball diamond complete with a banner welcoming the team home from spring training.

Bob
NMRA Life 0543

[Anonymous]

I built two diamonds on my N-scale layout. I intended them for use by little league teams. They are about 1/3 the size of a real diamond. That is the distance between bses is 30 feet instead of 90. i think they look fairly good for their intended use. I also built 3 1/3 size soccer fields along side of the ball fields. This "youth recreation area" is located next to the station in the town.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the info everyone. I am considering if this would be fun to try vs. using up the real estate to make this happen. I may draw out the dimensions and go from there to see how much it takes up.

[BRJN]

Try having some kids in an abandoned lot next to the tracks. It can be whatever size you want; the kids will have trodden down some not-quite-straight lines in the tall grass. Who knows what the distance really is. It may be a triangle rather than a diamond. One little kid (Calvin, as in the comic strip) is in the Very Outfield waiting hopefully for a pop fly; nobody in the infield is paying him any attention. Charlie Brown is pitching. Such a field could be cut through by the edge of the world without losing too much. Maybe the track should go through foul territory, rather than an outfield.