Old-time base ball comes to Princeton

Over the years in New Jersey, I’ve seen re-enactments of George Washington crossing the Delaware and the battles of Monmouth, Trenton and Princeton. Today, I got to see something old as something new: two bare-handed teams in Civil-War-era-style uniforms using vintage bats and balls play a “base ball” game using 1864 rules. The Newtown Strakes […]

19th Century baseball: ‘Old Hoss’ book doesn’t disappoint

A brief update: Last night I polished off the last chapters of “Fifty-nine in ’84,” the biography of Charlie “Old Hoss” Radbourn that I mentioned in a post a few days ago. The book by Edward Achorn was even better than I expected, bringing to life the game as it was played in the late […]