Downtown ballpark is taking root: Ballpark blanketed in Bermuda grass

(By Laura Graff, Winston-Salem Journal) - Things are looking a little greener for Winston-Salem's downtown baseball stadium.

Crews started laying sod for the field yesterday, rolling inch-thick cuts of Bermuda grass across left field in one of the final stages of construction for the long-awaited ballpark.

Rolls of sod arrived in two truckloads from a farm in Candor, near Pinehurst, where it has been growing for the last few years. More truckloads will come today and through the week, and crews will continue unfurling the rolls until all of the nearly 100,000 square feet of grass is on the ground.