Vintage Baseball From 1864 Coming to Cornish This Weekend
Six vintage baseball teams, from the Dirigo Vintage Base Ball Club will be playing baseball by the rules of 1864 and wearing old-fashioned wool-blend uniforms and boxy hats, in two-day New England Vintage Base Ball Festival.
Organizers include the Cornish Historical Society and the games will be played at the Cornish Fairgrounds. Fans might hear them referring to batters as “strikers” or to a hard-hit ball as a whizzer.” Fielders won’t wear gloves and a ball caught on a bounce will be an out.
The teams, including Maine’s Dirigo Vintage Base Ball Club, will take part in the two-day New England Vintage Base Ball Festival and the teams play to win.
There also will be a Civil War encampment set up nearby. Plus the players themselves will be on hand to talk to people about old-time baseball, besides giving a living history lesson on the field. The Dirigo team is made up of about 30 men from all over southern and central Maine.
Games are 11 a.m., 12:40 p.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday; 9:30 a.m., 11:15 a.m. and 1 p.m. Sunday (6/25 and 6/26) at theCornish Fairgrounds, Route 25, Cornish. Cost is $5; $3 for ages 6-12; Free for children under 6.
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