“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…”