A cool rain falls. Mercifully at first—everyone remembers the scorching, swampy summer of just a few days ago. But as it continues, we...

Once a year, Gettysburg’s Schroeder Farm Reenactment Field hosts a different type of event: the Gettysburg Vintage Base Ball Festival. 32...

It was the kind of thing you hear about from your grandfather every time the younger version of yourself stormed off the field and hung...

Baseball has the most natural rhythm of all the sports: it starts when the leaves first turn green, and ends when the last have fallen....

Who is the man in the arena? Why does he steam and swear and try to make so that which otherwise is not? Is it the thrill of victory—a...

The inevitable march of time takes one of two directions during the Catskill Mountain autumn. For some, time slows as single leaves fall...

The day dawned innocent, with a fog clinging to the valleys and the sun slowly burning through to the stream beds below. In the fields,...

The infamous and ubiquitous ‘they’ say life is 90% maintenance, and 10% everything else. If true, that means adventure, play, and...

On Saturday, all three Delaware County teams—the Fleischmanns Mountain Athletic Club, Bovina Dairymen, and Delhi Vintage Base Ball...

There is no straight line from Bovina to Hartford, Connecticut. North on Route 10, northeast on Interstate 88, east on Interstate 90, and...

Last Sunday, the newly formed Delhi Vintage Base Ball Club played their first-ever game. Oh, what a day of firsts it was! For the first...

When you’re young and idealistic, you want to sacrifice yourself for the good of the cause. It’s not only encouraged in the military, but...

There are some places that need no modifier. No adjectives, no state abbreviation, no explanations—the name immediately conjures a host...

They started out down some dirty road. Alone in a nameless rivulet, bubbling respectfully over a budding hillside they wound their way...

Last Saturday in Bovina, the hometown Dairymen and the Fleischmanns Mountain Athletic Club split a doubleheader in the last contest of...

On September 20th, 2020, the Northeast Vintage Base Ball All Stars gathered at historic Muzzy Field in Bristol, CT for their annual game....

Last Saturday, the Bovina Dairymen played the Wheelmen of Westfield, MA in their first contest of the year played by the rules of 1886....

As Bovina Valley slept, a heavy dew settled the night before the contest. But for the captain, the day awakes to the clatter of duties,...

Last Saturday, the home Mountain Athletic Club of Fleischmanns rallied for eleven runs in the last three frames to draw the season series...

Dairymen and Women— I sat down to do the writeup this week having just watched Field of Dreams for the first time in ten years, and what...