19th Century Baseball as played in 1864 Comes to Portsmouth, NH August 15th.
Mark your Calendars and come to Portsmouth, August 15th.
On Saturday, August 15, 2015, at historic Leary Field in downtown Portsmouth.
The Portsmouth Rockinghams will host the Kearsarge Base Ball
Club in a double-header.
The Rockingham Club
is a member of the Essex Baseball Association, an association dedicated to
presenting baseball as it was played in its formative years.
Both teams are named after actual teams that
played in New Hampshire in the 1860s.
The Rockinghams played out of Portsmouth. Kearsarge BBC was based in Concord. The teams play in period uniforms and utilize
1864 rules.
The games played on
August 15th are a much delayed (149 years) rematch of a home-&-home series
played in September 1866 between the original Rockinghams and Kearsarges in
which the later swept the series by scores of 31-26 and 32-19. Consistent with the custom at the time,
Kearsarge BBC hosted a banquet for the
visiting team in Concord following game two, at which former president,
Franklin Pierce, praised the players for their spirited play and extolled the
virtues of base ball in building a sound mind in a sound body.
The double-header
will start at 12:00 noon. It will be
preceded by a children’s demonstration and an explanation of the 1864 rules at
11:30 am.
Vintage baseball, or as
purists refer to it, 19th century base ball, is a fast-paced, high scoring game
guaranteed to be fun for the whole family.
The above blog post is courtesy of : Drummond Woodsum -Thomas R.
Watson, Attorney
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