05.22.09
Who wants to play ball?
There appears to be a reviving interest in getting a vintage base ball team together. If you are interested in playing please let me know. I would like to organize a get together soon so everyone can swing a heavy bat and check out the vintage base balls (They are much softer and will not kill your gloveless hand. I promise.)
Hopefully the photos below will inspire you to get involved. You don’t have to have a whole lot of playing experience or be in shape for that matter. I haven’t played baseball in 7 years and I am getting incredibly winded typing this.
I stole these images from Ray Shaw of the Newtown Sandy Hook of Connecticut. I hope he doesn’t mind. Check out more of his images: http://www.diamondpix.com/.
Most of the vintage clubs out there have their schedules in place but I would like to get people together to get a feel for playing vintage ball and go from there. Drop me a line here or at info [at] scvbb.org. Also, feel free to join us on our Facebook Group.
Tom Hoffman said,
May 22, 2009 at 10:21 am
What year? What are you thinking of for unis?
Kyle said,
May 22, 2009 at 10:38 am
I am not thinking too far ahead as far as uniforms. I just want to have people to play. I had originally thought of basing the team on the 1858 Ironsides Base Ball Club of New Bedford.
At this point I thought I would introduce people to circa 1858-1860 since I have bats and balls for that time. But if people want to go in the direction of the 1880s I would love to do that as well.
Gary "Dots" Nisbet said,
July 7, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Hey,
This is gary from The Hingham Historical Society’s Vintage Base Ball Club. If you have a team and would like to travel to Hingham, home of Mike King Kelly during his Boston Beaneater days, let me know. We would love a match in August.
Huzzah!
Kyle said,
July 8, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Hi Gary,
I have emailed you a couple of times. Maybe you are not getting my emails? I’ll try again from a different account.
Kyle