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Squaring up your Baseball field. 

 

Over time with putting bases on and taking bases off of the field, tilling up your field and replacing home plate, your field my become unsquare, or out of alingment.  Ideally you would measure with three tapes, one on each base, to insure that the bases are at the proper distances. 

You will need a base peg or screw driver and three measuring tapes; 200' each.  (I am going off of measurements for a 60' little league field, but this method works for any field of any size.)

 

 

 

Step 1

The first step is to get a referance point, which in most cases is home plate. 

Start your three tapes from the back of home plate. (see picture below) 

Each tape will go to a base.

 

 

   

 

 

Step 2

Pull the tapes that go to 1st and 3rd base like you would if you were setting up 

a field to be chalked for a game.  With the tape on the foul side of the base. 

It is hard to see, but the picture below shows that this 1st base is almost 

3 inches to far away from home plate.

 

 

        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 3

Once you find where the back corner of first and third mark it with a base peg or screwdriver then wrap the tape around it and pull it to second base.

 

 

 

          

 

 

Step 4

 This is what it looks like when you pull all three tapes towards 2nd base.  One tape is from 1st base, being wrapped around the back corner of the base, another is from 3rd base, being wrapped around the back corner of that base and the third (middle) tape is directlly from home plate.  The three measurements need to be 120', 120', and 84' 10" (middle tape)  Where those three tapes intersect, that is the center of your second base. 

More then likely all three tapes will not line up perfectly.  In this case you can adjust your pegs at first and third base either towards or away from second base to get the right measurements at second base.

 

         

 

 

Step 5

The final step is to reset the base anchors at the measurements that were just established from the steps above and set the bases and take another measurement to ensure the anchors were set right.