VBBA 2024 Conference
Ft Myers, FL
March 15 - 17, 2024
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July 4, 2024 Vintage Baseball Team needed.
Allendale Township, Michigan, is celebrating their 175th Anniversary this year, 2024. We are looking for a vintage baseball team to play a game on July 4th at 1:30 or 2 or possibly July 3 in the evening at the Allendale Township Ball Field in the park at 6676 Lake Michigan Drive in Allendale (by the Allendale water tower).
We would give a donation to your team and provide a delicious lunch or dinner, possibly BBQ chicken grilled on the 4th,depending on the time.
We would have to know by May 1. Please contact Lorraine Busman at 616-516-4175 or lorrainebusman@gmail.com. Thank you.
Please post this on the VBBA. site for request - the Douglas Dutchers can't do this date nor would we have another Club to play against us. Too bad, as it is right next door to the University which I attended for my BA - Grand Valley State. University, and this Lady also graduated from there as well. Thanks. Helen The Wild Sicilian DeGeatano
"Before European settlers arrived to what is now Allendale, it belonged to the Chippewa People. In the early 1800's, the first European settler to set foot in Allendale was Pierre Constant. He was a fur trader and explorer that worked for the British Fur Company. Pierre found his way to what is now Allendale by way of the Grand River from Lake Michigan. He traveled up the Grand River to Trader's Creek, where the Creek meets the River. Here he established a trading post to purchase furs from the Native Americans."
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The VBBA Today is the official podcast of the Vintage Base Ball Association. www.youtube.com/watch?v=guAfkBn3b6M
The inaugural Vintage Base Ball Association (VBBA) podcast is underway, presented by host, Dustyn Dubuque of the Menomonie Blue Caps (WI). Each episode he will chat with members of the VBBA and the vintage base ball community at large about all things 1860 or later, base ball!
For the first episode, Dustyn is joined by VBBA President, Gary Schiappacasse to discuss all things VBBA National Conference, March 15-17. The pair discuss the presenters, past conferences, why attending these conferences is so fun and where the 2025 conference will be. Find all VBBA information and conference information at VBBA.org.
CORRECTIONS & ADDITIONS: Kelly Rinne, due to a recent illiness will NOT be a presenter. Dr. Susan Dellinger, the Keynote presenter's GRANDFATHER, is Edd Roush. The VBBA tried to get Bill "Spaceman" Lee as a Keynote speaker. Edison and Ford WINTER Estates. 2025 VBBA Cooperstown Conference site.
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Leslie Heaphy one of three people to receive the 2024 Henry Chadwick Award from SABR is presenting at the 2024 VBBA Fort Myers Conference, March 16, her topic, "19th Century Black Base Ball."
Leslie also presented at the 2020, and 2021 VBBA Conferences. Go to the VBBA YouTube page for those presentations on the history of women in base ball.
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VBBA 2020 Women in Baseball: The Early Years, On the Field and Beyond
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VBBA 2021 Session #9 Lizie, Amanda, Alta, and Maud: Early Pioneers
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Congratulations to Leslie Heaphy! She was one of three people to receive the 2024 Henry Chadwick Award.
Dr. Leslie Heaphy is presenting at the 2024 VBBA Fort Myers Conference, March 16. "19th Century Black Base Ball"
Dr. Leslie Heaphy Associate Professor, history at Kent State at Stark. Vice President for SABR and President of Board for the IWBC. Written and edited a number of books on the Negro Leagues and Women’s baseball as well as numerous book chapters, articles and presentations. She has presented for the VBBA at two previous conferences.
The Henry Chadwick Award is given by the Society for American Baseball Research, “established to honor the game’s great researchers — historians, statisticians, annalists, and archivists — for their invaluable contributions to making baseball the game that links America’s present with its past.”
Leslie Heaphy has been a recognized authority on the Negro Leagues and women in baseball for more than three decades. She has led SABR’s Women in Baseball Committee since 1995 and has helped organize the annual Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference since 1998. She is the founding editor of the journal Black Ball, editor of The Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball, and author of The Negro Leagues, 1869-1960.
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Awards season, continued: SABR’s Henry Chadwick Awards - Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
Congrats to Larry Gerlach, Leslie Heaphy, and Sarah Langs, this year's recipients of the Henry Chadwick Award given by the Society for American Baseball Research,0 CommentsComment on Facebook
BASE BALL WEEKEND CHECK OUT EDISON AND FORD ESTATES, MARCH 15 TO MARCH 17
FRIDAY: Training in Fort Myers, going pack to the Pittsburgh Pirates of Roberto Clemente, at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m..
ALL WEEKEND CHECK OUT:
FANATICS: Thomas Edison, Connie Mack and Spring Training in Fort Myers
This exhibit was created in partnership with the Connie Mack, III family. It features original artifacts and photographs on loan from the Mack family, connecting Thomas Edison, Connie Mack and baseball in Fort Myers.
HISTORY OF TERRY PARK & CONNECTION TO THOMAS EDISON
In 1921, Dr. Marshall Terry, along with his wife Tootie McGregor-Terry, donated several acres of land...
Using the specifications put forth by Cornelius McGillicuddy, aka “Connie Mack,” manager and owner of the Philadelphia Athletics, construction of the original ball field began in 1923 and was officially named Terry Park.
Terry Park served as the official. training home of the Athletics until 1936.
Edison decided to visit Terry Park on a few occasions to watch the Athletics play, even seizing one opportunity to participate in the team’s batting practice session.
SUNDAY MARCH 15:
Vintage "Base Ball" Game at Historic Terry Park, 11 a.m.
Florida's Three VBBA vintage base ball teams: Fort Myers Vagabonds, Bradenton Shamrocks, and the Awkwards Vintage Base Ball Club of Central Florida will play a small tournament based on the Rules of 1860. They will play the "bound" game. The batter may be out on either a fly ball or one "bound" catch.
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This VBBA Town Hall group is designed to allow different vintage base ball (VBB) teams and players to learn about upcoming events throughout the nation. The intent is to enable folks from the different parts of this country to have discussions about how their seasons have been going and to facilitate interclub relationships.
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