Vintage Base Ball - A present day display of games played the way they were in 1864.

Welcome to the New York Gotham Base Ball Club Web site. We are part of a large group of Vintage Base Ball Clubs that strive to present base ball's history to others by playing base ball as it was done in the past.  Our goal is to recreate the game as it was played in 1864 as accurately as possible to share our knowledge of this great game of base ball from an historic standpoint.

The Gothams are playing our 8th season of Vintage Base Ball in New York City.  Our home games are played on either the Great Lawn in New York City's Central Park or in Juniper Valley Park in Middle Village Queens. The team was founded by Drew Frady, a ten + year veteran of the hobby and former treasurer of the Colorado Vintage Base Ball Association, past advisor for the Old Beth Page Historic Base Ball Program, and current president of the VBBA.  The fact that New York City, where the game was essentially invented, lacked such a Vintage organization became one of Mr. Frady's concerns. Through his (and others) hard work and research, Vintage Base Ball is now played in New York City.

2009 Gotham Cup Sponsored by Basballdigest.com and Dive Bar to be played on 5/16 & 5/17: 
 
The 4th Annual Gotham Cup Tournament sponsored by Gotham Baseball Magazine: http://baseballdigest.com/ will be held on Sat & Sun May 16th & 17th, 2009.
This year, the Gotham Cup is also sponsored by the Dive Bar (www.divebarnyc.com), Budweiser and Dewar's! After the first round games on Saturday, we're all going to the Dive Bar for "Ye Olde Base Ball Bash", which will include live music, drink and food specials all night! Note that there will be food and drink all day at the Dive Bar, so please stop in with or without your families and friends to enjoy good food, drink, and atmosphere.
The games will again be played in Central park's North Meadow on Field's 4 & 5.  See Map: http://www.centralparknyc.org/site/DocServer?docID=150

The Schedule of events are as follows:

Sat 5/16:
§    All day - Food, Drink and Festivities at the Dive Bar: http://www.divebarnyc.com/
§    9 AM - Field 5 - Flemington Neshanock vs. NY Mutuals (1864) - Umpire Sam Bernstein
§    9 AM - Field 4 - Jersey City Skeeters vs. Glen Head Zig Zags (1887 Rules) - Umpire Ken Schlapp
§    10:45 AM - Field 5 - NY Mutuals vs. Waterbury Connors (1864) - Umpire Sam Bernstein
§    10:45 AM - Field 4 - Elizabeth Athletic Club vs. Newtown Sandy Hooks (1864) - Umpire Schlapp
§    12:30 PM - Field 5 - Waterbury vs. Jersey City (1864) - Umpire Geoff Burt
§    12:30 PM - Field 4 - Glen Head vs. Mountain Athletic Club (1894) - Umpire Charles Dryer
§    2:15 PM - Field 5 - Newtown vs. Flemington (1864) - Umpire Sam Bernstein
§    2:15 PM - Field 4 - EAC vs. Providence Grays (1891) - Umpire Eric Miklich
§    4 PM - Field 5 - Brooklyn Atlantics vs. MAC (1864) - Umpire TBD
§    4 PM - Field 4 - NY Gothams vs. Talbot Fair Play (1864) - Umpire TBD
§    5:45 PM - Field 5 - Atlantics vs. Talbot (1864) - Umpire TBD
§    5:45 PM - Field 4 - Gothams vs. Providence (1873) - Umpire TBD
§    The goal is to play 9 innings for each game.  However, no inning will start later than 15 minutes prior to the start of the following game.


Sun 5/17:
§    All day - Food, Drink and Festivities at the Dive Bar: http://www.divebarnyc.com/
§    9 AM - Field 5 - Atlantics vs. Gothams (1864) - Umpire Geoff Burt
§    9 AM - Field 4 - Newark Eureka vs. Talbot (1864) - Umpire Sam Bernstein
§    10:45 AM - Field 5 - Atlantics vs. Waterbury (1873) - Umpire Ken Schlapp
§    10:45 AM - Field 4 - Talbot vs. Providence (1864) - Umpire Sam Bernstein
§    12:30 PM - Field 5 - Waterbury vs. Glen Head (1873) - Umpire David Dyte
§    12:30 PM - Field 4 - Providence vs. Jersey City (1884) - Umpire Paul Salomone
§    2:15 PM - Field 5 - Gothams vs. Newark (1864) - Umpire TBD
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