The team will hold its first practice of the 2016 season on Thursday, April 13th, at 5:30pm on our home field at Fort Trumbull in New London! We will be practicing at 5:30pm every Thursday at the Fort for the remained of our season, weather permitting. If you’re interested in joining us for a practice please contact us to confirm that practice is on before driving to the Fort.
Our season schedule is still being finalized but it should be posted by the end of this week.
“Modern baseball may have new founder” – Andrew Dalton/AP
“Los Angeles — Modern baseball may have found its birth certificate. And with it a new birth date, and new founding father.
Coinciding with the start of the major league season, a set of game-changing documents went up for sale this week. Their authenticity and significance are verified by experts including John Thorn, Major League Baseball’s official historian.
The 1857 documents titled “Laws of Base Ball” establish the essentials of the modern game: The distance of the base paths is 90 feet, the length of the game is nine innings and nine players are in the field…”
We were unable to field a team for this weekend’s games vs. the Bristol Blues and the Lisbon Tunnelmen at the Buzzards Bay Brewery so we had to cancel.
We’ve added a scrimmage on Thursday night at 5:30pm with the Connecticut College Baseball Club at Fort Trumbull to our schedule. This will be our final game of the 2015 season.
“Historical societies to play ball” – The Day
“The historical societies of Chester, Deep River and Essex are teaming up to present their second Vintage Base Ball game on Sunday, Sept. 20, at Devitt Field, on Main Street in Deep River. The 2 p.m. game will be free to the public. Three teams will play two or three innings each by late 19th-century rules and customs to recreate the earliest days of America’s pastime. Historical commentary will be provided to help the audience understand baseball rules of the 1850s. Players will wear specially made uniforms and caps representing their towns’ uniforms of the past and will use authentic reproduction wooden bats and hand-sewn hard balls. Old-time refreshments will be sold by Ivoryton Tavern. Raindate will be Sept. 27. For more information, call (860) 526-2331 or visit chesterhistoricalsociety.org.”
We played our last home games of the season yesterday, defeating the Woodstock Hilltoppers in two well-played games. The first game took almost 2.5 hours making it the longest game this season.
Our remaining schedule consists of 3 away games in September. The first is on Sept. 12th against the Hartford Dark Blues at Wethersfield Cove in Wethersfield, the second is on Sept. 19th against the Waterbury Connors Alumni at Chase Collegiate School in Waterbury, and our last match of the season is on Sept. 26th (note date change) with the Bristol Blues and Lisbon Tunnelmen at Concordia Boat Yard in South Dartmouth, MA.