Playing their first season on a brand new, state-of-the-art GameDay Grass XPe field at Wuerfel Park, the Traverse City Beach Bums of the independent Frontier League have started red hot, going 5-2 the first week of the season. This includes a three game sweep of the Midwest Sliders on their brand new AstroTurf surface.
The surface will be cheaper to maintain and allow for more events to be held at the site, said John Wuerfel, president and CEO of Wuerfel Sports Development.
"We're traditionalists," Wuerfel said. "We love grass, but from a business standpoint this makes sense.
"It's a lot less expensive to maintain, it always looks nice and we can have a lot more activities on the field without having to worry about damaging it.
"This is not the hard AstroTurf of old. This is a state-of-the-art natural looking infill turf."
"It cost us over $100,000 a year to maintain the grass," Wuerfel said. "It was a huge expense for us." It will cost between $5,000-$10,000 a year to maintain the new field, he said.
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