VBBA 2025 Conference
Cooperstown, NY
March 28 - 30, 2025
Schedule Coming Soon
2025 Conference Registration Coming Soon - Vendor Info & Registration Coming Soon
2025 Presenters Guide Coming Soon
Keynote Speaker, Bill Lee
2024 VBBA Conference Recordings & More
Are available on the Videos page and the VBBA YouTube page.
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There are over 200 vintage base ball teams across the country. Find one in your area.
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Starting a team, or just looking to become a part of the game? Here's how to get involved.
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Support Doc Adams for the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and read about The Abner Doubleday Myth.
About the Game
We play by the rules and customs of base ball as it was played in its formative years.
Warren Ballpark Built 1909
Help the Friends of Warren Ballpark preserve Bisbee Arizona’s historic ballpark built in 1909. Owned by the Bisbee School District, it is the oldest continuously operating multi-sport facility in the country and is still used for high school baseball, football and soccer and community events. In its storied past, Casey Stengel and Billy Martin played here. Jim Thorpe hit a 440- foot home run over the center field fence.
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VBBA - Vintage Base Ball Association
This is the official Facebook page of the VBBA (Vintage Base Ball Association).
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The next game in Florida is November 9th at 11:00 a.m. at Zoloft Springs. It includes all three Florida vintage base ball clubs: Awkwards, Vagabonds, and Shamrocks. They play three seven inning round robin games by 1864 rules.
When is the next game?
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Head on over to the VBBA YouTube page and listen the second conversation on The VBBA Today between Dustyn Mad Dog Dubuque of the Menomonie Blue Caps, VBBA Trustee, and Gary The Professor Schiappacasse, President of the VBBA, on the state of vintage base ball and the VBBA. Learn about the upcoming VBBA 2025 Cooperstown Conference.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktB-5WntJ7w
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Michael Jennings shared this information about the site of the first professional game of baseball played in Fort Wayne, Indiana at Kekionga Ball Grounds, in 1871.
neatlinemaps.com/product/nl-02276/fort-wayne-guide-map/
Here is what Bill Griggs and Jim Nitz of SABR had to say about it.
sabr.org/bioproj/park/kekionga-ball-grounds-fort-wayne/
Kekionga Ball Grounds (Fort Wayne, IN) – Society for American Baseball Research
sabr.org
Kekionga Ball Grounds (Fort Wayne, IN)January 8, 2012/in BioProject - Park Ballparks /by adminThis article was written by Bill Griggs - Jim Nitz Fort Wayne, Indiana, has hosted only 12 major-league ga...1 CommentComment on Facebook
The monument is as close as it could be to location of home plate.
The VBBA welcomes The Bulldog Bat Company to our Vendor Discount List. www.bulldogbatsonline.com/
There are now seven vendors offering a 15% discount to VBBA Member clubs. One more reason for being a member of the Vintage Base Ball Association.
www.vbba.org/vendors/
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Great company. Own 4 BDB and my team have many team bats from here, too.
Many friends in the vintage base ball
community have been rallying support for Daniel Lucius "Doc" Adams this year in an effort to see that he is placed on the ballot when the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Classic Era Committee convenes later this Fall. This “Pitch for Doc” was made possible by the support of members in the National Association of Historic Base Ball Clubs, VBBA - Vintage Base Ball Association, and of course, DocAdamsBaseball.org.
This video is a first volume featuring (in order of appearance) Gary Monti -Old Bethpage Village Restoration, Nicholas Frandsen and John Finn - Bovina Dairymen, Raymond Hanson and Corky Gaskell - The Knickerbocker Experience, Mike Fini - Cornshuckers Base Ball Club of Canton, Jake Newcomb - Dirigo Base Ball Club of Maine, Gunner Genovese - Westfield Wheelmen, Frank Edward Pagano - Mutual Base Ball Club of New York, Jon Henson - Providence Grays, Jeff Kornhaas - Liberty Base Ball club, Matthew Bartnicki - Diamond State Vintage Base Ball Club, Phil Reese - Atlantic Base Ball Club, and yours truly.
Stay tuned for more clips from other friends in our wonderful community of vintage ballists.
#docadamshof #pitchfordoc #19cbaseball #vintagebaseball
Should Doc Adams Be In The Hall Of Fame? Of Course! #Baseball #DocAdams #DocAdamsHOF
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o-R_9-fiWU
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VBBA Town Hall Facebook Group
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.
