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LINE-X Protecting More Than Just Vehicles
Look out the window. Does it look like it is baseball season? Certainly not here but baseball is being played in the collegiate ranks and Spring Training is underway in the pro ranks. While it may not feel like it, spring and warmer weather is right around the corner. LINE-X is also helping to make that possible as well.
OK, LINE-X is not responsible for spring’s arrival. It may be a great product but it’s not that great! Instead LINE-X is helping to protect one of college baseball’s most historic venues.
Protecting A Historic Venue
Samford Stadium-Hitchcock Field at Plainsman Park is the home of Auburn Tigers baseball. It has been used for Tigers baseball since 1950 and it has been rated as one of the top collegiate venues thanks to numerous renovations over the years. It was even rated as the top collegiate venue in 2003 by Baseball America and in 2016 by D1baseball.com. Future stars like Bo Jackson, Gregg Olson, Frank Thomas, Tim Hudson and Josh Donaldson have called the stadium home and numerous other stars have played here as visitors.
Over the 2018-2019 off-season Auburn University partnered with LINE-X to help protect the venue as part of a restoration effort for the stadium’s roofs and dugouts. LINE-X’s unique polyurea was used to protect the dugout roofs in an aesthetically-pleasing manner by blending it in with a green color dubbed Plainsman Park Green. The dugout blends in with the surrounding railings and seating so it will not detract from the fan experience.
LINE-X Knows Alabama
LINE-X is perfect for this. The weather in Alabama can be harsh and LINE-X is built to stand up to it. Regular paint will fade, crack or peel when it is exposed to the elements but LINE-X will not, while at the same time creating a water-tight barrier to prevent seepage into the concrete. This same coating was also applied to the roof as well.
LINE-X was also the ideal company to handle a project like this as the company is headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama only about 210 miles away from the university. With this project Auburn expects to save money by reducing maintenance costs and by not having to reapply the coating for several years to come. It is expected that the coating will stand up to the hot Alabama sun much better than regular paint so it will retain appeal for years to come. They also believe that it will make the fan experience at this historic venue even better.
The average high in Alabama in July is 91 degrees.
A Baseball Can Cause Damage
Baseball parks can take a beating. The standard baseball weighs between 5 and 5 ¼ ounces and it is a solid object with a solid rubber/cork center and four layers of wool and cotton that can stretch about 350 yards if laid out. A line drive after being hit can travel as fast as 110 miles per hour and any object traveling at that speed can cause damage, even to concrete. A popup hits between 30 and 70 miles per hour. There is a reason that most people instinctively duck out of the way when a baseball is flying at their head.
A baseball can break glass and dent vehicles. It can break bones and even in a few unfortunate instances kill a person. This danger has led to many stadiums erecting extended netting to protect fans. While concrete and wood may be harder than a person’s bones it can cause damage to that as well, gradually chipping away at the material until it breaks. As any baseball groundskeeper knows, maintaining a field is a lot of work and no spectator wants to sit under a damaged roof when it is raining.
LINE-X is of course known for it’s truck bedliners but it can be used for so much more and in a way what it can be used for is only limited by someone’s creativity. If there is something that you need to be protected, LINE-Xing it may work.
About LINE-X and Krown of South Central Pennsylvania
LINE-X and Krown of South Central Pennsylvania is the leader in vehicle undercoating protection using Krown products and truck bedliners using LINE-X spray-on bedliners. We serve York County to help maintain and extend the life of vehicles. If you are in York or Yocumtown, Dillsburg or Delta, Goldsboro or Glen Rock or any point in between stop in at our Vogelsong Road location to see what we can do to protect your vehicle. No one knows protection better than LINE-X and Krown and the premium performance and exceptional value that they bring.