Heather Nabozny of Tigers, Nicole Sherry of Orioles: Women groundskeepers in MLB
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Women lead when it comes to maintaining two of the nicest baseball fields in the world.
GroundskeepHERS, if you will.
The Detroit Tigers made Heather Nabozny the first female head groundskeeper in Major League Baseball history in 1999, the team’s final season at historic Tiger Stadium, and she’s kept the field at Comerica Park looking as nice since it opened. That includes the major-league All-Star game in 2005 and the World Series in ’06.
In 2007, the Baltimore Orioles named Nicole Sherry the head groundskeeper at Camden Yards, regarded by many as the best ballpark in the majors. And so …
