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"The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again."
- James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams (1989)

Parks Director Kenn Kaminski has told City Council that vandals are the culprit for the deplorable conditions in our parks. It is not that the golf course is sucking up the money originally intended for our parks and that there is not enough money even for basic maintenance and upkeep. Kaminski even promised to take our elected officials on a tour of the parks to show them the havoc these vandals have wrought. He has not. Thanks to the loyal readers of the Massillon Review, we are.

When the voters of Massillon passed the .3% income tax for parks and recreation, a key promise was that money would be used to build and maintain ball fields for our youth. Baseball season is upon us. Let's see what the "vandals" are up to.


See how the vandals refuse to properly maintain the field.


Here, the vandals allowed grass to overtake the infield.


Look how the vandals have ruined the pitchers mound.


And home plate

Have these vandals no shame?