Pacific Coast Baseball League Fields

Real mounds, and one address

The league leads with its grounds rather than its standings: top high school and college fields across Los Angeles County, with real mounds, grass infields, fences and dugouts. For adult baseball in a city this size, holding permits on that standard of field is the hardest and most expensive thing a league does.

Only one specific ground is named anywhere -- El Cariso Park, in Sylmar at the north end of the Valley, where the open tryout is held.

So the promise is made and the addresses are not published, which means a player cannot tell whether the league plays anywhere near him. A High Cheese schedule attaches the ground to each game, so a league spread across a county the size of LA tells every player exactly how far he is driving on Sunday.