astroturf

[Mullins, Bill]

The blog "Baseball Musings" commented on the fact that the National
League is now free of artificial grass:

http://www.baseballmusings.com/archives/008519.php

"As you know, "Astroturf" entered the language as a generic term for all
artificial playing surfaces. It used to rile Dad tremendously when
cheaper, inferior quality imitiations of Astroturf were installed in
other stadiums and were commonly called "astroturf". He hated to see the
product get a black eye in public relations when football and baseball
players would injure themselves, or the ball would bounce funny, and
blame the "astroturf" surface. "It's that lousy Polyturf causing that
trouble, damn it, not Astroturf!" Not sure who made Polyturf -- possibly
arch-rival DuPont (the name was almost swear-word in our house during
Dad's Monsanto days....)"