“Just call the ump ‘Sir’: 1890s-style baseball game coming to Ansonia” – Michael P. Mayko/Connecticut Post
“…Michel, Buono, Gura and French were among the first to get a feeling of what’s expected of their play July 19 in a baseball game using 1890 rules and equipment at Nolan Field.
The game will pit the Ansonia Coppermen, in honor of its historic factories, against the rival Derby Osborndales, named for that city’s philanthropic family…”
“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…”
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)
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)