Villagers Vintage Baseball Team

09/18/2024

Huzzah to our brave Bay Villagers’ vintage base ball team who this past Sunday split a double-header at Akron’s historic Stan Hywet hall, losing first to our hosts, the mighty Akron Black Stockings and then pummeling the pesky Canal Fulton Mules.
The weather was perfect, the beer was cold, the dogs were hot, the crowd was cranked, everyone had a great time and (almost) everyone escaped injury!
😳
Huzzah!!!

07/08/2024

In our annual Independence Day rivalry match, the fabled Whiskey Island Shamrocks defeated our beloved Bay Villagers Vintage Baseball Team today 12-5.
The crowd was estimated to be the largest ever for a Villagers’ game! Thanks to the cranks (aka fans) that showed up in force to root, root, root for the home team!’
Huzzah!!!!! — with Alexis Lyn Calatrello and 9 others.

06/24/2024

It's almost time once again to PLAY BALL!
Come out Thursday, July 4 to watch your fav vintage base ball team, the Bay Villagers play their cross-town rivals, the Whiskey Island Shamrocks!
Admission is free! Bring your kids, your parents, neighbors, friends and dogs!
First pitch will be at 2 p.m. on Cahoon Field, across the street from Bay Days.
Vintage base ball is played in throwback uniforms with old school rules! An American pastime, indeed!

06/20/2024

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10/04/2023

If you like baseball, you will LOVE this montage of highlights from the best baseball movies!

Someone made a baseball movie montage and it actually deserves an Oscar. Thank you to whoever made this.

08/22/2023

Saturday’s Smithville scrimmage photos.

07/31/2023

Get ready for the next Villagers' game: Saturday, August 19 @11:30 a.m. in Smithville, against the historic Smithville Stars!
https://www.facebook.com/SmithvilleStars/
Bring your friends, family and pets! Have a picnic and check out historic Smithville. Make a day of it, and root on your local Villagers Vintage Baseball Team!

The Smithville Stars, a vintage base ball team based out of Smithville, Ohio, purpose is to demonstrate the game of baseball played by 1860's rules.

07/11/2023

Congrats to the Bay Villagers for a comeback in the making!
After getting thumped by seven runs in the TOP of the FIRST inning, the Villagers - in the annual Bay Days’ vintage baseball game on July 1 - were clawing their back and had narrowed the gap to 10-5 in the fourth inning, with two men on base when thunder and torrential rains halted the game.
Next up: The Orrville Stars, in August! Check back to this page for more upcoming information on this game and other future games and vintage baseball info!
(Please post here in the comments section any other photos taken. We didn’t get many before the rains came)

06/28/2023

Your beloved Bay Villagers’ Villagers Vintage Baseball Team will play their season opener This Saturday at 1 pm (the Monday listed in the Bay Days calendar is wrong!). We play in the Cahoon Park field across the street from Bay Days.
Everything is FREE!!!!!!!
Bring your friends, kids, neighbors, everyone! Old school throw-back uniforms and vintage baseball rules too!!
See y’all soon!
Huzzah!!!!

06/19/2023

A Father's Day trip to my father's ballpark: CLE's historic League Park
https://www.cleveland.com/guardians/2023/06/on-fathers-day-a-trip-to-my-fathers-ballpark-league-park-terry-pluto.html?fbclid=IwAR1SaTgKbb9BCOOX9RqTzNbAJ6PxoC_BXaY1TuO9PCDRArBbKNCZVDv1Kck

When my father began going to baseball games, the Tribe was playing at old League Park and Clevelanders were being squeezed by the Depression.