Dear Mr. Sportsknowitall: How did the pitcher's mound come into being and does ... some of the dirt used for the infield skin, build with bricks of the clay, some plywood, place the pitcher's ...

pitchers can call the grounds crew out to fix it. You can see from this video of a Zack Greinke start that the mound isn’t made up of infield dirt. It’s more of a clay. “Some mounds just ...

Advertisement “It’s not a great mound, but I tried to keep it as nice as possible,” Priester said. “They had some clay, so I kept it in good shape. I wanted to get a true pitching surface ...