Recent Results
By Blue Reilly | September 5, 2008
The following league results have been submitted:
- New Hampshire Granite (2-4) def. Olneyville Temperance Cadets (5-2), 16-15 (10 innings)
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Recent Results
By Blue Reilly | August 20, 2008
The following league results have been submitted:
- Olneyville Temperance Cadets (5-1) def. Boston Beaneaters (5-2), 6-4
- Boston Beaneaters (5-2) def. Boston Colonials (5-5), 17-2
- Westfield Wheelmen (8-2) def. Meddowe BBC (2-3), 7-6
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Old Bethpage Photos
By Blue Reilly | August 6, 2008
Ray Shaw has posted his photos from the 11th Annual 19th Century Base Ball Festival on his website. Click the photo below to see the gallery. We’ve also posted some of them in our photos section.
Photo by Ray “Shutta” Shaw (www.diamondpix.com).
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Recent Results
By Blue Reilly | July 30, 2008
The following league results have been submitted:
- Westfield Wheelmen (7-2) def. Meddowe BBC (2-2), 12-3
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NEVB Clubs Travel to Old Bethpage
By Blue Reilly | July 28, 2008
The Boston Beaneaters, Bridgeport Orators, Olneyville Temperance Cadets and Providence Grays are traveling to Old Bethpage on Long Island to participate in the 11th Annual 19th Century Base Ball Festival, this Saturday and Sunday (8/2 & 8/3). Results and photos from the weekend will be posted on this site Monday. This poster was created for the festival by Ray Shaw of the Newtown Sandy Hooks (click to enlarge).
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Results this week
By Blue Reilly | July 27, 2008
The following league results have been submitted:
- Olneyville Temperance Cadets (4-1) def. Boston Colonials (5-4), 18-8
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Results this week (7/18)
By Blue Reilly | July 22, 2008
The following league results have been submitted:
- Providence Grays (2-4) def. Bridgeport Orators (1-4), 6-5
- Whately Pioneers (3-4) def. Simsbury Taverneers (2-4), 13-6
- Meddowe BBC (2-1) def. Hartford Senators (7-3), 20-16
- Westfield Wheelmen (6-2) def. NH Granite (1-4), 22-3
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Pitching in 1886
By Blue Reilly | July 15, 2008
The Art of Pitching in Baseball
By Henry Chadwick in the July 31, 1886 edition of Scientific American
(found at http://www.thediamondangle.com/archive/july03/sciam.html)
In these days of remarkable exhibitions of skill in playing baseball by professional exemplars of the game, one cannot look back to the early period in the history of baseball without being struck with the great contrast between the work done on the diamond field at Hoboken, in the “fifties,” and that which marks the play of the leading professional teams of the present era. The game has been wonderfully improved since its boyhood days, and in nothing so much as in the great degree of skill now shown in the pitching department. In fact, the pitching of the present day is marked by an amount of skill, dexterity, and the accurate performance of the work experience has taught, which Webster defines as characteristic of an art. Without writing an essay on the subject, I will merely refer to what this art consists of in its application to the pitching of the period. In the first place, modern pitching excels the old method of delivering the ball to the bat in one special feature, and that is in the horizontal curve of the ball through the air, something practically unknown in the days of old on the historic Elysian Fields at Hoboken. It is in this one respect, in fact, that its advance has been so noteworthy; for in some other essentials of success in pitching, the veterans of the old school were not so far behind the work of the present day, for they were skillful strategists in the position. But the old pitchers of the period in question literally pitched the ball to the bat, they not being allowed the advantage of throwing the ball as our modern pitchers are, the term “pitcher,” as applied to the occupant of the “box” in our professional teams of to-day, being a misnomer. This curving of the ball in the horizontal line of its delivery from the hand of the pitcher to the catcher behind the batsman is the great feature of the modern art of pitching. Read the rest of this entry »
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Results this week (7/12)
By Blue Reilly | July 13, 2008
The following league results have been submitted:
- Boston Colonials (5-3) def. NH Granite (1-4), 28-5
- Hartford Senators (7-2) def. Bridgeport Orators (0-3), 12-2
- Westfield Wheelmen (5-2) def. RI Game Hens (2-4), 14-5
- Olneyville Temperance Cadets (3-1) def. Westfield Wheelmen (5-2), 5-4
Photo by Curt Allan (www.curtallan.com). Click to see more from the Westfield vs. Olneyville game.
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Recent results
By Blue Reilly | July 7, 2008
The following league results have been submitted:
- Boston Beaneaters (4-1) def. Hartford Senators (6-2), 9-8
- Boston Beaneaters (4-1) def. Whately Pioneers (2-4), 3-2
- Olneyville Temperance Cadets (2-1) def. Providence Grays (1-4), 25-7
Photo by Curt Allan (curtallan.com). Click the photo to see more of Curt’s recent photos from the Olneyville vs. Providence game
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