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Conner Prairie 
 
 
Team Name The Conner Prairie Base Ball Club
Team Location Indianapolis, Indiana
Year Established 2001
From the Conner Prairie website:  When Conner Prairie opens the first phase of its new 1886 Farm and Rural Crossroads next April, visitors will have frequent opportunities to watch and participate in recreated 19th-century base ball matches. By the 1880s, base ball (it was two words then) had truly become “America’s Game.” Throughout Indiana and the entire country, clubs would play “matches” in farm pastures and town parks. Unlike  today’s game, balls and strikes were not called, catching a ball on one bounce was an out, players fielded the ball without the aid of a glove and players were prohibited from arguing.
                                                                  
 Conner Prairie is looking for adult and youth volunteers interested in participating in the  museum’s vintage base ball club. The club will be organized later this summer and play its first matches next spring. For more information, contact Mary Friend at 317.776.6000  ext. 264.
 


Contact:
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13400 Allisonville Road
Fishers, IN 46038-4499
317-776-6000
317-776-6014 (fax)
    800-966-1836 (toll free)
         317-776-6006 (visitor services)