Tommy Hassett is the sole fulltime grounds pro for the Brockton Rox Minor League baseball team. The Rox is a member of the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball.

Hassett keeps the team's playing field at Campanelli Stadium, Brockton, MA, in excellent shape. The field has won a "best field" designation in one league or another every year since 2002.

Hassett, 50, doesn't use more words than he needs to describe what he does and how he does it. He lets his actions speak for him.

His daily ritual is as simple as it is long. Hassett shows up in the morning and on home-game days, doesn't go home until the game is done, sometimes late at night. He cuts the field every day to keep the Kentucky bluegrass roughly 1 1/4 in. high, applying drying agent as needed. He relies mostly on common sense, he told Boston Globe correspondent Paul E. Kandarian.

Click here to read Kandarian's excellent article about Hassett and the fine work he does at Campanelli Stadium.