When Cobb reported that back to the MLB Commissioner’s Office, they immediately dispatched their highest level field-maintenance and ground-crew guru: a former Baltimore Orioles field supervisor named Murray Cook. “Cook was absolutely critical,” said Cobb. “He was able to get those fields into playable shape for all of these professional-level prospects to compete on, to where they weren’t worried about bad-hop grounders or stepping into holes in the outfield. He did wonders over there, not just on the Gold Coast, but in Sydney, to the main baseball stadium and secondary facility as well.”
