{"id":2745,"date":"2019-09-30T08:19:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T12:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2019-09-30T08:21:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T12:21:52","slug":"lost-ball-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/2745","title":{"rendered":"Lost Ball Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally found this lost baseball field in the woods that I&#8217;ve been looking for off and on for a while.\u00a0 Always suspected there was or should be a field there, but could never find it on the historical aerials, and finally did.<\/p>\n<p>Once you know it is there, it is obvious to see; why I never found it before, I dunno.\u00a0 In my defense, these aerials are quite large, not cropped down like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2746\" title=\"092919w\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the evidence, the old backstop found.\u00a0 Unfortunately, quite overgrown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2747\" title=\"092919z\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919z.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919z-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919z-414x300.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More pics of the site.\u00a0 I&#8217;d say about 5-10% of the terrain is actually swingable.\u00a0 You have to crawl under branches and thru brambles and thornbushes to find these little clearings under the canopy where the thornbushes and underbrush don&#8217;t grow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919y.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2748\" title=\"092919y\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919y.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919y.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919y-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919y-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919x.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2749\" title=\"092919x\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919x.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919x-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919x-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given the low likelyhood that the site has been detected hard with an E-Trac, if at all, it seems likely that I&#8217;ll be pulling silvers out of here by the bucketfull, right?\u00a0 Well, we&#8217;ll see. yesterday&#8217;s take, proving the site is viable &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2750\" title=\"092919\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919.jpg 554w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092919-381x300.jpg 381w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I dunno.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve probably hit 50% of the clear areas already.\u00a0 Either the veg goes down this winter, or the land is cleared someday, or this will probably be about it for this site.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad, as these things go.\u00a0 Last time I found an old ballfield site, I think I found 14 silvers.<\/p>\n<p>But, for me, its also about finding the site in the first place.\u00a0 Hard to believe that I&#8217;ve been looking for this off and on since I started detecting.\u00a0 Not hard or aggressively, but off and on.\u00a0 Why I could not see it on the aerials before, who knows?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally found this lost baseball field in the woods that I&#8217;ve been looking for off and on for a while.\u00a0 Always suspected there was or should be a field there, but could never find it on the historical aerials, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/2745\">Continue reading <span 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