1860’s Baseball – Then and Now

Baseball talk for LHS flyerThe Ledyard Historical Society presents “1860’s Baseball – Then and Now”, a program on vintage baseball presented by Mike Dreimiller and Jim Wyman.

2:00pm – Sunday, April 19th
The Bill Library Meeting Room
718 Colonel Ledyard Highway, Ledyard

Refreshments will be served.
Free Admission ~ All are Welcome!

For information, call (860) 464-9912.

Doc Adams falls short of HOF

Doc Adams received 10 votes from the Hall of Fame Pre-Integration Era Committee today, 2 votes short of the 75% required to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. The resstructured the He will next be eligible in 3 years when the Pre-Integration Committee next meets.

Major League Baseball historian John Thorn joins Hot Stove to talk about the Pre-Intergration Era finalists for the Hall of Fame – MLB (7 Dec 2015)

Base Ball as Mark Twain Knew It

HARTFORD, Conn. — The Mark Twain House & Museum is pleased to present five leading experts from the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR), who will engage in a lively panel discussion of “base ball” during the 19th century. The moderator will be the Mark Twain House & Museums’s Education Manager, Craig Hotchkiss, who is a former vintage “base ball” player and frequent presenter of the museum’s community outreach program, Base Ball as Mark Twain Knew It.

This fascinating–and free–discussion on the national pastime will take place on Wednesday, September 17 at 7:00 p.m. in the Mark Twain Museum Center. Panelists include John Thorn, David Arcidiacono, Gary O’Maxfield, Joe Williams, and Bill Ryczek.

Time will be reserved for questions from the audience, and following the program, the authors will sign copies of their books for the public. Copies of their books will be available for sale in the Mark Twain House bookstore.

Base Ball in Twain’s Time: A Panel Discussion by Five Leading Experts from the Society of American Baseball Research (20 Aug 2014)

Oldest known base ball card sells for $92,000

Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer:
This 1865 card of the Brooklyn Atlantics was found by a picker in Baileyville and will be auctioned off at the Saco River Auction Company on February 6. There are only two of the cards known to exist and the other is in the Library of Congress.

The Brooklyn Atlantics card was found late last year by an antiques picker in Baileyville, a town of about 1,700 residents in Washington County, 300 miles from LeBlanc’s home in Newburyport, Mass.

Man buys $92,000 baseball card for sick son – Gillian Graham/Portland Press Herald (6 Feb 2013)

Baseball Pioneer Doc Adams’ Knickerbocker Scroll Missing from Yale University Library

A facsimilie of the “Nestor of Ball Players” document presented to Daniel Lucius “Doc” Adams by the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, the original of which was lost after it was donated to Yale University i the 1950s.

According to Dom Amore, of the Hartford Courant, the Adams family says the scroll was donated to Yale in the 1950s, however, he also said officials at Yale deny that they ever received the Adams resolution on the 1863 scroll. Amore told us, “Family thinks Yale lost it.”

Doc Adams’ great granddaughter, Marjorie Adams, has been trying to get Yale to locate the scroll for years . “My grandfather donated the scroll to Yale sometime in the 1950s and much later, sometime in the 1960s or 1970s, my father wanted to have the scroll professionally photographed. But Yale could not locate it. We’ve been searching for it ever since.”

Read more: Baseball Pioneer Doc Adams’ Knickerbocker Scroll Missing from Yale University Library – Peter J. Nash/Hauls of Shame (16 Sep 2011)