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Article: Vintage baseball comes to Harbor Yard.
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- Connecticut Post
- Article date:
- July 2, 2007
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Byline: Rich Elliott
Jul. 2--BRIDGEPORT -- A year ago Joe Vigorito would have never envisioned that he would be playing vintage baseball as a member of the Bridgeport Orators. He wanted to get back into baseball, but he had designs on competing in an area baseball or softball league. Not on resurrecting the proud program that brought the sport to the city in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by James O'Rourke.
Yet, once Vigorito saw an ad for a vintage baseball tournament that was in Stamford, it triggered the history buff inside of him. He surfed the Internet, discovering a deluge of information on the sport and at Christmas time last year the idea ...