there is a brown turf mound atop a green turf floor. A white wall adorned with the LSU logo stands just to the left-hand side of the pitching rubber. The area is more spartan than the high-tech ...

There are over 12,000 synthetic turf fields in the US, most of them contain ground up tires, called crumb rubber. Recently, questions have been raised about these fields and a possible link to cancer.