“The Ivoryton Nine Take the Field” – Rita Christopher/The Day
“ESSEX – It was a perfect day for baseball-sunny, not too hot, a bit of an afternoon breeze. In New York, the Yankees were playing their traditional rivals, the Boston Red Sox. In Ivoryton, there was a ball game, too, but not the one that the major leaguers were playing. The Ivoryton Nine were taking on the Lyme Taverners in a game governed by the rules of 1864, when base ball, as it was then spelled, was a different game…”
“Yesterday’s Baseball Today: Ivoryton Nine Play Lyme Taverners” – Rita Christopher/The Day
“The hurler throws the pill to the striker, who makes a banjo hit as the cranks cheer. Maybe more aces for their club nine! But alas, the pill is caught on one bounce, and the striker is dead.
No, it’s not murder; it’s not mayhem; it’s vintage base ball-that’s right, base ball, two words back then. And it is coming to Comstock Field in Ivoryton on Saturday, Sept. 7, when the Ivoryton Nine play the Lyme Taverners…”