2007 SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND EVENTS CALENDAR ANNOUNCED FOR FORT VANCOUVER...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......National Park Service's Fort Vancouver National Historic...Programs and Events at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site in 2007. Fort Vancouver has expanded its...Kids Dig, Vintage Base Ball, and Candlelight...our annual Vintage Base Ball Game. " May ...

FORT VANCOUVER NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE ANNOUNCE ITS EVENING PROGRAM SERIES...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 9, 2006 ;     454 words ......National Park Service's Fort Vancouver National Historic Site...National Park Service at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site...will take place on the Fort Vancouver Parade Ground, at the...30pm. July 7- Vintage Base Ball: Two Words, No Salaries Just in time for ...

Team does base ball old school

Herald News, The (Joliet, IL);  July 28, 2007 ;     700+ words ......interpretation, not just reenactment. (The vintage base ball players) are supposed to be there for...were doing with their off-time." Vintage base ball is, essentially, a less complicated version...online company that manufactures vintage base ball rarities. But if orders are backed ...

The Great Base Ball Match of 1858: base ball's first All-Star Game.

Nine;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The Great Base Ball Match of 1858, which was a best 2 out of 3 games...pivotal to the game's history: 1. It was organized base ball's very first all-star game. 2. It was the first base ball game in the New York metropolitan area to be played...

Holy Cross bringing back vintage base ball; Teams to play exhibition of...

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  June 24, 2006 ;     579 words ...In the late 1860s, a new game called base ball (two words) was breaking out across the...who started this game. Without (vintage base ball), the game wouldn't be what it is today." Vintage base ball was the national pastime in its childhood...

Northville historian plays vintage base ball: Librarian always had an...

Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI);  August 5, 2007 ;     497 words ......Michigan. And he plays a game called base ball -- that's two words -- without a glove...antique or old baseball? A: Vintage base ball (baseball was two words in the 1860s...describe it, but it refers mostly to base ball played by the rules of the 1860s. Q...

`BASE BALL' GAMES A PORTAL TO THE PAST

The Boston Globe;  June 3, 2004 ;     433 words ......baseball. Really old, back when it was "base ball." Saturday baseball fans will have a...watch two teams reenact a Civil War-era base ball game in Waltham. The event will kick...stood in 1861, the Danvers-based Essex Base Ball Club will play a team from Coventry...

Throwback catching on: In a growing trend, the Elkton Eclipse is the...

Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  July 14, 2006 ;     700+ words ......active teams belonging to the Vintage Base Ball Association, created 11 years ago. It...awaited the arrival of the New York Mutual Base Ball Club. The waist-high backstop was draped...or catcher. At first glance, vintage base ball (two words back in those days) might...

Spalding's tourists in Bristol: base ball in Graceland.(American baseball...

The National Pastime;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......including stories headlined THE AMERICAN BASE BALL PLAYERS IN BRISTOL, which appeared in...prickly and defensive paragraph: The base ball players yesterday raised their siege...not going to take our opinions about base ball from London, any more than we take our...

Back...back...back; Base ball shown in 1860s form

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  June 26, 2006 ;     620 words ......dawning days of the national pastime with a vintage base ball game. The game was played under 1860s base ball rules. The Ghost Players and Holy Cross All-Stars - who learned vintage base ball rules as they went along Sunday - teamed to take on...

'Base ball' arrives in sporty style|HISTORY IN MAKING

Herald News, The (Joliet, IL);  September 28, 2006 ;     457 words ......fair city this weekend, and a local base ball team is being assembled, with hopes...bubble. A curious new sport, this "base ball" is. Will it catch on in Lockport? Only time will tell. In a "base ball" game - the vintage style, mind you...

A celebration of "base ball".

Seattle Times (Seattle, WA);  November 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ......played as early as 1859 at Fort Vancouver, Washington territory...the first accounts of base ball in Snohomish County: No fatal case of Base Ball yet. One member discovered...By 1879, the Blue Jays Base Ball Club had formed in Snohomish...

HURLING A HISTORY LESSON ESSEX BASE BALL CLUB DRAWS FANS WHO 'HUZZAH' TO...

The Boston Globe;  August 25, 2005 ;     700+ words ...HAVERHILL The members of the Essex Base Ball Club like to joke that their games are...can't help but stop and look. The Essex Base Ball Club is a group of local fanatics who...equipment and language of that era, the Essex Base Ball Club is a history lesson in action...

DETAILS Base Ball in Bethpage, N.Y.

The Washington Post;  June 20, 2004 ;     212 words ......at the light. THE GAMES: Two Old Time Base Ball games are played every Sunday (weather...Mondays. The seventh- annual Old Time Base Ball Festival -- in which 12 teams from throughout...restored buildings and all the Old Time Base Ball you can watch. WHERE TO STAY: There are...

Vintage 'base ball' pitches its values.(Special Report: Sports)(Vintage...

Advertising Age;  January 29, 2007 ;     301 words ......promise to associate brands with certain values. The Vintage Base Ball Federation, co-founded by former big leaguer and baseball gadfly...playoffs and a World Series to be held this summer. Old-style base ball (it was originally two words) is played in vintage garb using...