The Brooklyn Cyclones will play home games on artificial turf this year, and the grass at the city-owned ballpark in Coney Island has already been ripped up and replace with synthetic. The grounds at MCU Park was switched from natural grass as part of the stadium's post-superstorm Sandy repairs — defying a 20-year trend in professional baseball toward natural grass fields.

Storm forces Brooklyn Cyclones to synthetic field

The Brooklyn Cyclones will play home games on artificial turf this year, and the grass at the city-owned ballpark in Coney Island has already been ripped up and replace with the synthetic kind, the team announced. The grounds at MCU Park was switched from natural grass to artificial turf as part of the stadium’s post-superstorm Sandy repairs — defying a 20-year trend in professional baseball toward natural grass fields.


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