Weird High School Baseball Fields, a breakdown with FivePoints Vids

Apr 13, 2020 2.5M views 5:48

What Happened

This is one of Jomboy's lighter offseason videos, made during the COVID shutdown in April 2020 when there was no live baseball to break down. Jomboy crowdsourced photos of bizarre high school baseball fields from a Reddit thread and his own Twitter, then walked through his favorites. The lineup includes a Kentucky field with an absurdly short right field, Toms River High School South in New Jersey (home of Todd Frazier and Sean Doolittle) with a building jutting into the outfield, a California field with a center field wall just 250 feet out, and a cameo from FivePoints Vids showing a Panama field with a 10-story bridge directly above it and a conch tower sitting where left field should be.

Why This Matters

There's no rulebook drama here, just baseball comfort food during a dead period. With spring training shut down in March 2020 and the season frozen, Jomboy leaned into community content to keep the channel active, and it worked. The Toms River reference carries real weight: that program produced the 1998 Little League World Series champions plus big leaguers Frazier and Doolittle, so the cramped, weird field is where actual pros learned the game. The video also shows how Jomboy's audience had grown into a participation engine, with 3,000 replies to a single tweet feeding the whole concept. It's the kind of off-topic detour that kept fans engaged until games returned that July, and it remains one of the channel's most-watched uploads despite featuring zero MLB action.

With 2.5M views, this ranks #74 of 1,583 Jomboy breakdowns, putting a field-tour video with no actual baseball in the top 4.7% of the entire catalog.

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Who / What Is Involved

Players: Aaron Judge. Teams: Orioles.

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people were posting weird highschool

baseball fields on reddit so then I

tweeted it and I got three thousand

responses these are my favorite of weird

/ bad baseball fields first this is the