groundskeeping

The league is amateur but the Mets have in the past used “import” players — not paid to play exactly, but rather to work as a coach, help with groundskeeping and promote the game in schools.

Meanwhile, the amount of manual occupations, such as transportation, cleaning, groundskeeping and construction, had declined.

And Harquail couldn’t find five of the landfill’s 42 wells, which may have been buried by construction or groundskeeping.

At the same time, the art of groundskeeping was growing more sophisticated.

A motorized cart, the kind that might otherwise be deployed for groundskeeping or golf, steers onto the field as a gurney, toward one man in dire pain.