With opening day less than two weeks away, groundskeepers are scrambling to help their ballparks recover from months of snow and freezing temperatures that left fields looking more ready for cross-country skiers than baseball players.

"This has actually been the perfect storm for me," White Sox groundskeeper Roger Bossard said. "I've been in this for 45 years and I've seen a lot of snow. Certainly, that's not hard to handle. ... My problem act