The Day newspaper sent their award-winning photographer Tim Cook to our game today. You can check out his photos here:
“America’s game, played by 1861 rules, at Fort Trumbull State Park” – The Day (May 17, 2015)
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“Hidden History: America’s pastime”
Here’s a video by the Fox61 channel in Hartford about vintage base ball in Connecticut, featuring Pinetar from the Wethersfield Red Onions.
Hidden History: America’s pastime – Fox61/Smantha Schoenfeld
Hidden History: Baseball In Hartford
Fox61 photojournalist Mike Townsend looks at Connecticut’s baseball history in this video featuring Jeff “Pinetar” Kornhass from the Wethersfield Red Onion, Frank Rizzuto from the Hartford Dark Blues, and Doug Malan, author of “Muzzy Field: Tales from a Forgotten Ballpark“.
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)
Vintage Baseball, Classic Rain
“Vintage Baseball, Classic Rain” – Rita Christopher/The Day
“In the end, the weather won, but not before the spectators at the tri-town vintage baseball game had a chance to cheer for their teams and the players had a chance to take some impressive cuts at the soft, brown, lemon-size sphere that mid-l9th century teams played with.
It was baseball, even if the correct spelling in the 1857 rules, by which the games were played, was two words: base ball. But base ball was baseball with a difference. Players didn’t use gloves; outs could be made both by catching a fly ball or by catching the ball on one bounce. No stealing bases, no taking leads, no laying down bunts.”