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Does anyone have any stories about the best or worst foul territory surrounding a ballpark? The worst I have seen is a high school field in Pullman, WA which is densely forrested down the right field line with thick underbrush. 10-15 balls a game seem to disappear there.

The best I've seen was at a school in Oregon. The field was located in a "bowl" with steep hills and clay so when a ball landed on the hill it routinely rolled down and was neatly deposited at the fenceline.

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Not sure about baseball, but the world's most dangerous golf hole is located at Camp Bonifas, just this side of the Korean JSA. It is a one-hole, par three 'course', and is surrounded on 3 sides by landmines. They don't allow anyone to play it anymore......I guess it used to be something the guys up there just did to say they'd done it.
George Mason High School in Virginia, hands down. The brilliant county minds constructed a new field that backed up to Interstate 66, which leads down into D.C. Foul balls routinely landed on the highway and the Virginia Department of Transportation shut the field down. The County then built the world's tallest backstop, easily 75' high; one school board member told me that if it was a little higher, the FAA would've required beacons on it.

The supporting poles are roughly 5' in diameter-it looks like they're playing on the deck of the Titanic next to the poles, which bear an uncanny resemblance to smokestacks on a ship.

Mason does have a good baseball program and has sent some guys on to college in recent years.
Meinen Field in Peoria, IL was right along I-74. Foul balls on the 3rd base side would head for the interstate.

I don't know if they could actually get there or not but when I was a youngun, they'd play a sound effect of glass breaking and cars crashing when a foul ball was hit that way. The first few times, I was sure it was real!

Used to go watch the Peoria Pacers if the CICL league. I seem to remember watching a young Jim Sundberg playing for the Galesburg (I think) team.
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