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Originally Posted by knight1376
you made them lol...I was just going thru them, nice job. Iam going to use the 1893 in the next park......good job.....
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Thanks. One thing I'd change to that 1893 infield is the players' lines. I have them extending beyond the coaches' lines, but the photos I've seen indicate that the players' line wasn't continued past the line that connected the players' and coaches' lines.
It's difficult to get reliable information about these sorts of things, and I get the sense that not all parks strictly followed the rules about diamond layouts. The players' lines were necessary when players sat on benches in foul territory, but they became obsolete once teams starting installing dugouts. Nevertheless, you'll still see photos from the 1910s that show players' lines, so I'm not sure when they were finally abandoned. Today, the coaches' boxes are often marked by just two lines - that's a remnant of the era when the line closest to home plate was connected to the players' line.