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Vintage Base Ball is baseball played by rules and customs from an earlier period in the sports history. Games are typically played using rules and uniforms from the 1850s, 1860s and 1880s. Vintage base ball is not only a competitive game, but also a reenactment of baseball life similar to American Civil War reenactment. Players dress in uniforms appropriate to the time period, in fact many teams are direct copies of teams that existed in the late 1800s. The styles and speech of the 1800s are also used while playing vintage base ball. // Events and Trends Technology Production of steel revolutionised by invention of the Bessemer process Benjamin Silliman fractionates petroleum by distillation for the first time First transatlantic telegraph cable laid First safety elevator installed by Elisha Otis Science Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species, putting forward the theory of evolution...
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An American Civil War reenactment is an effort to recreate a particular battle or similar event associated with the American Civil War by hobbyists known (in the United States) as Civil War reenactors. ...
Rules and game play Although rules differ according to which playing year is being used, there are some mostly common rules differences between the modern game and vintage base ball. In rules years prior to the 1880's, the ball is pitched underhand in a manner suitable to the batter, or "striker". There are typically no fences as base ball is mostly played in fields and green spaces. However, obstacles (e.g. trees, building, etc.) often come into play. In many of the rules sets the ball can be played off of one bounce to get a striker out. Catching the ball can be very difficult because no gloves are used. Glove front (top) shows catching surface with baseball bat. ...
Because limited descriptive evidence exists to illustrate what live gameplay may have looked or sounded like, reseachers and vintage "ballists", or ballplayers, engage in an ongoing interprative discourse about how the game may have actually appeared. Interpretations of points of play such as such as how frequently runners would steal bases, when sliding first became common and what it might have looked like, how strikers would hold or swing the bat, how the umpire's authority evolved, and how players would have conducted themselves on the field are continuously debated and refined. One commonly held (though occasionally contested) interpretation is that gameplay was marked by a spirit of gentlemanly sportsmanship. Vintage ballists will often observe this custom through friendly gestures such as cheering good plays made by opposing players, assisting umpires with making calls at bases, and conducting organized cheers for opposing teams (and often for the umpire and "cranks", or fans) at the conclusion of a match.
The Vintage Base Ball Association ( [1] ) is an international association of vintage ball clubs which promotes the game through conferences, publications, message boards and listservs, educational resources, and links to leagues, clubs, tournaments and related activities in the U.S. and Canada.
Glossary - Ace or Tally - run; crossing home base
- Apple, pill, horsehide, onion - the ball
- Artist - proficient player
- Baller, Ballist - player
- Basetender - an infielder
- Behind - catcher
- Bench - manager or coach
- Blind - no score
- Blooper, banjo hit - weak fly ball, "Texas leaguer"
- Boodler - ungentlemanly maneuver
- Bound - bounce
- Bowler, hurler, thrower, feeder - pitcher
- Club, Nine - team
- Cranks (or Throng) - fans
- Daisy Cutter - sharp grounder
- Dead or Hand Dead - put out or batter out
- Dew Drop - slow pitch
- Dish - home plate
- Foul tic - foul ball
- Four Baser - homerun
- Ginger - enthusiastic play
- Ground - field
- Hurler - pitcher
- Huzzah! - hooray
- Leg it - run swiftly
- Match - game
- Midfielder - centerfielder
- Muckle - power hitter
- Muff or Duff - error
- Muffin - enthusiastic but unskilled player
- Pitcher's Point - pitchers mound or rubber
- Player Dead - out
- Pluck - fine strike or play
- Plugging (or Soaking) the Runner - throwing the ball at runner to put him out (illegal after 1845)
- Rover - shortstop
- Scouts - outfielders
- Show a little ginger - play harder or smarter
- Sky Ball, Skyer - flyball
- Stinger - hard hit ball
- Striker - hitter
- Striker to the line - batter up
- Talleykeeper - scorekeeper
- Three Hands Dead - 3 outs, side retired
- Whitewash - team held scoreless for a match or at-bat
- Willow – bat
See also Wikipedia has a number of articles about the history of baseball: Origins of baseball History of baseball in the United States History of baseball outside the United States 1845 to 1868 in baseball Pre-1850s in baseball London Tecumsehs (and origins of baseball in Canada) Negro League baseball Minor league...
Organizations The Ohio Village Muffins is a group of vintage base ball players supported by the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus, Ohio, presenting the game of base ball (spelled as two words in the 19th century) according to the rules and customs of the 1860-era, wearing uniforms and using equipment...
The Capital Base Ball Club is a vintage base ball team based on the original Capital Club which was one of three baseball clubs formed in 1866 in downtown Columbus, Ohio. ...
The Chesapeake and Potomac Baseball Club is a group of vintage base ball players from the greater Baltimore-Washington DC area, presenting the game of base ball (spelled as two words in the 19th century) according to the rules and customs of the 1860s. ...
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