Faced with different conditions than other places, the Colorado Rockies have a method to control the ball a bit.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/baseball/mlb/angels/la-sp-0609-angels-notes-20120609,0,481604.story
Building one room seems a lot cheaper than spending millions to expand the stadium. Shame on golf for not controlling its equipment and playing fields.
I remember looking at Bob Waterfield's punting records at UCLA. In the late 40's he had some 80-90 yard punts. Old timers tell me it was a much different ball. Sports must adapt to keep the game and their playing fields relevant.
Lynn, the short answer is, they don't.
The long answer: Baseball is probably the exception, since they still use wooden bats, but even then the bats are much different today than they were 30-40 years ago. Beyond just the addition of maple (bats break in chunks these days when they used to splinter), the handles are smaller and the barrels are bigger. Heck of a lot more broken bats now than there used to be. College baseball has actually started to rein in the bats, and it has made for a better, and safer game.
The ball hasn't changed all that much in football, aside from the "kicking" ball that was introduced a few years ago. But in terms of equipment (pads and such), the emphasis on safety, while well intentioned, hasn't helped much. Lighter, stronger pads seem like a good idea, but they allow players to turn themselves into missiles. I'd venture to guess there were fewer concussions in the leather helmet days, when leading with your head was not a good idea. I remember as a kid thinking rugby players were crazy because it looked like football without pads. When I actually visited Australia, the kids I met thought American football players were nuts, since the game consisted of 300 lb. guys ramming into each other as hard as possible, thanks in large part to the body armor they wear.
In hockey, sticks these days break like toothpicks. They've evolved from one piece wood sticks to two piece aluminum/wood sticks to one piece composite sticks that are much lighter, much more powerful, and unfortunately break much more easily. I'd be surprised if the average was fewer than 8-10 broken sticks per game. The evolution in sticks has led to an arms race featuring bigger pads for goalies (made possible thanks to lighter materials) and while that's not the only scoring is down, it's certainly a component.
Don't even get me started on Tennis. Watch an old McEnroe-Borg match compared to the 1-2-3 shot rallies we see these days thanks to rackets that allow 140 mph serves. Today's tennis is unwatchable.
About the only sport that hasn't changed much because of technology is, intestingly enough, the one you're famous for. Basketball has evolved over the decades like almost all sports, but technologically, things havent changed much. Though I'm curious what kind of numbers you would have put up with a three point line.
As for the Rockies and the changes at Coors, the Rockies hit five solo home runs today. Of course, some of that is due to Dan Haren's recent propensity for offering up gopher balls. Fortunately the Angels only needed one home run, and still put double digit runs to win the game.