Greg Pace is on his way from his classes at Detroit Edison to the baseball team's practice.
It's 4 p.m. on a Wednesday as he cuts through the parking lot —still in his school uniform (a white button-up shirt and red tie — passes through the gate and reaches the turf at Chene and Mack, with the downtown skyline to the southwest.
Just turf, marked at either end with the "Pioneers" at either end, where Detroit Edison plays its football games in the fall. No infield. No outfield. No fence. No bases.
It's not the type of field on which you'd except a player such as Pace, who is committed to Michigan baseball and projected to be selected in the first five rounds of July's MLB draft, to hone his baseball skills.