New Web Site for Vintage Ball

A vintage ball practice was held on Sunday and it was pretty successful. We had a very nice turn out and we will go at it again this Sunday. I have created a new site for the club at http://www.ironsidesbbc.org  http://ironsidesbbc.wordpress.com. I thought I should keep the ball club and the historical research separate from [...]

Muffin Baseball

A ‘muffin’ is a term that was applied to a new or inexperience ball player in the early 1860s. In the collections of the Umass Dartmouth Archives and Special Collections is a booklet containing humorous illustrations of the type of play you may expect to see of a mid-19th century muffin. The booklet, Base Ball [...]

Vintage Base Ball Club Could be Reborn Later This Summer

After putting in a lot of time last year in to forming and organizing a vintage club I have decided against putting in additional time again this year in to trying it again. I put in a lot of time, effort and money (I don’t have) and in the end there were not quite enough dedicated to [...]

Early Days of Baseball in New Bedford, ca. 1858

            Baseball in New Bedford seems to have a longer past than once believed. According to a May 2006 Standard Times article, the Wamsutta Base Ball Club was the first baseball club in the city in 1866. The source of that information may have come from the obituary of Charles [...]

Intro

I am currently researching baseball history in the New Bedford area. As I go along with research I plan to post some of my findings here. Feel free to comment, criticize, offer advice, share information and ask questions.I am also in the process of forming a vintage base ball club in the area. By playing [...]