Roger Bossard

Roger Bossard is the current Chicago White Sox head groundskeeper at U.S. Cellular Field.

Roger joined the White Sox in 1967 working as an assistant to his father, Gene Bossard, and became the official Head Groundskeeper when his father retired in 1983. Roger is known amongst the industry as "The Sodfather" [cite news |first=Mike |last=Thomas |title=The Sodfather |url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/sodfather.html |work=Smithsonian magazine |date=April 2008 ] , and is highly influential in the development of new ballparks.

Roger's revolutionary drainage and irrigation system is unparalleled in the stadium-building industry and his patented system has been used in the creation of numerous stadiums, Arizona, Boston, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis (both old and new Busch Stadium), Seattle and Washington, and both Chicago ballparks (Wrigley Field and U.S. Cellular Field), as well as spring training complexes for Cincinnati, Montreal, the Yankees, St. Louis, Arizona and the White Sox.

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