On the Marketing of Yankee Grass

On the Marketing of Yankee Grass

Exactly what is fertilizing this super sod?

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A South Jersey grass farm that has supplied turf to Yankee Stadium since the 1960s plans to sell officially licensed grass in the form of sod or seeds.

–Associated Press

You too can have a yard with sod

Like sod upon which A-Rod trod.

One wonders: has it been suggested

That Yankee Sod and Seed be tested,

In case it’s bluegrass that’s made bluer

By substances that aren’t manure?

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