If Doc Adams was looking down on Hartford Saturday, he was probably blushing. He was that type.
To hear his accomplishments recited, his virtues extolled and see the pride in the faces of his great, great-great and great-great-great grandchildren, the old Doc might well have been embarrassed by it all…
Read more: Doc Adams Finally Recognized As A Founder Of Baseball – Dom Amore/Hartford Courant (10 Sep 2011)
Further research by appraiser Jasmani Francis revealed that the numbers on this 19th-century baseball commemorate the final score of the game between the Brooklyn Atlantics and the Baltimore Pastime on June 23, 1859.
At the Miami Beach ROADSHOW in 2010, a guest named James brought in an extremely old, handmade baseball that sports memorabilia expert Jasmani Francis appraised for the whopping sum of $20,000 to $30,000…
1859 Brooklyn Atlantics Presentation Baseball – Luke Crafton/PBS Roadshow (3 Jan 2011)
Check out this excellent article, Base Ball Fever 1865, written by Edward Baker of the New London County Historical Society.
The New London County Historical Society will present William Ryczek speaking on “When Base Ball First Got Organized” at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Shaw Mansion, Bank Street.
Ryczek, a member of the Middletown Mansfields Base Ball Club, is the author of “When Johnny Came Sliding Home: The Post-Civil War Baseball Boom, 1865-1870” and “Blackguards and Red Stockings: A History of Baseball’s National Association, 1871-1875.”
Admission is free for members and $5 for nonmembers. For more information, call 443-1209.
“Baseball Lecture Planned” – The Day