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SPECIAL NOTICE TO TEAMS USING THE FIELDS

PLEASE REMEMBER THESE RULES:

1. RETURN THE BASES TO THE FIELD BOX AFTER EACH PRACTICE.
2. REPLACE THE BASE PLUGS.
3. RAKE AROUND BASES AFTER PRACTICE.
4. REPAIR ANY HOLES MADE AT HOME PLATE OR THE PITCHERS MOUND.

The Copperfield Ball Fields are part of the Copperfield Community in Northwest Houston, located at Willow River and Highway 6 North.
 
This website is set up to help manage those fields. For reservation and usage policies please click on "Field Usage Rules" to the right.

To see who is using the fields and their availability click on "Calendar" to the right.

A Field Usage Agreement can be found under "handouts" to the right.

If you meet the Field Usage Rules and see a time that you would like to reserve the fields please send your request to vanrichards@sbcglobal.net   To help insure that your email does not get confused with spam, please put Copperfield Ball Park Field Reservations in the subject line.

Your reservation is NOT confirmed until the Field Usage Agreement is returned and the times are posted on the calendar. Print out the calendar with your team's field usage times on it and that will be your reservation confirmation.  (FYI- when printing calendars, you may want to change your page orientation to landscape.) 

YOU MUST CARRY YOUR FIELD RESERVATION CONFIRMATION WITH YOU TO PRACTICE. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE YOUR FIELD RESERVATION CONFIRMATION WITH YOU, YOU MAY BE ASKED TO LEAVE.

A copy of the calendar will be posted on the door of the Community Center.

Bases and some field equipment are in a locked storage box on field #1. Coaches who qualify for reservations will get a combination to the storage box to use the equipment. Renovation, management and neighborly usage of the fields has been a community effort. If you're interested in how this all began read the the following reprint from the March 23, 2006 Copperfield Sun Newspaper. _________________________________________________________________________________
COPPERFIELD BASEBALL DIAMOND GETS MAKEOVER By Dustin Bass , Contributing Writer
 
Ask Blake Richards what life is all about and he'll probably say baseball. Few things are more important to this brown-eyed, 10-year-old boy than a ball and glove. Blake grew up playing baseball. He's watched it, played it, dreamed it and says that hopefully one day he'll be able to live it. He recently did something most players don't get to do - he helped make the game a lot better at his local field. After submitting a simple 150 word essay to the Briggs and Stratton "Diamonds in the Rough" Contest, he became one of 15 children throughout the nation to win $5,000 to renovate their community's baseball field. Blake focused on the fact that his field wasn't very safe. Surrounded by ant beds and jagged fences, he decided it was time that he do something about it. "He's out here practicing almost every day," said Cynthia Richards, Blake's mom. With some help from his parents, older brother Brian, and some members of the local YMCA and Copperfield Lions Club, they began to rejuvenate the downtrodden baseball field. The Copperfield Lions Club also uses the field, as do other local teams. Combining their efforts, they spread approximately 129,600 pounds of special baseball dirt across the two connected baseball fields. One is for 9- to 12-year-olds and the other is for 11- to 13-year-olds. But making cleaner base paths, safer pitching mounds, and all around first-class baseball fields is just the beginning of this endeavor. David Paulson, president of the Copperfield Lions Club, who assisted throughout the day, hopes that the field will remain as nice as it is now. The teams that play at these fields will be expected to keep it in the best shape possible. H-E-B and Wal-Mart sponsored the effort by supplying the much needed food and drinks for the work day that started at 9 a.m. on March 18 and went into the evening. Home Depot also donated $250 for ant killer to be used on the field. Since the age of 4, Blake has been a small part of America's favorite pastime, but it seems that, as the days go by, his role becomes larger and larger. Raised by his parents to love the game, and coached by retired professional baseball player Randy Brown, he seems only destined for greatness in what many say is the greatest game in sports. But until then he'll work on his fastball, pop flies and homework. Blake Richards apparently understands what retired professional baseball manager Sparky Anderson meant when he said, "Those of us lucky enough to be part of the game have a tremendous responsibility - we're charged with giving back to the game all the good things the game has given us."

The game thanks you, Blake.