When the University of Kentucky takes the field for the first time in its new $49 million baseball stadium, that field will be AstroTurf.
UK announced last year that the stadium’s new surface would be synthetic. This week, the school revealed the company that would handle the installation, a change from the traditional real grass and dirt of the team’s current home, Cliff Hagan Stadium.
AstroTurf is the company that invented artificial playing surfaces in the 1960s and takes the name from its installation in Houston’s legendary Astrodome. The AstroTurf of today was everything Kentucky was looking for in a new playing surface.