Mid Atlantic Vintage Base Ball League

Delaware City, DE– The MAVBBL League Championship Tournament is slated to start Sunday, October 2nd at Ft DuPont in Delaware City, Delaware.  This is the first time the first state will be holding the event which features the top 6 clubs in the league.  Admission and parking are free and the day kicks off at 10:00am and the champion will be crowned around 4:00pm.  Come out and see six of the finest 19th century base ball clubs battle using the same style equipment and uniforms and playing by the same rules and customs of 1864.

At 10:00am, the Talbot Fair Plays will take on the New York Gothams while the Cecil Club of Chesapeake City plays the host Diamond State BBC of Delaware.  Waiting in the wings for the winners are the champion and runner up from last year.  The winner of the Talbot/New York game will play the Elkton Eclipse at Noon while the victor of the Chesapeake City/Delaware match plays the Brooklyn Atlantics.  The 3rd place game will take place at 2:00pm between the Noon losers and then at 2:15 the Championship will take place to determine this year’s league champion.

Chesapeake City downs Talbot in MD State Championship

Glen Burnie, MD– The Cecil Club of Chesapeake City sit atop of the roost for the 2011 season as they win their first 19th Century Base Ball Maryland State Championship with two convincing wins over traditional Old Line powers.  In the first round matches of the day, the Potomac Nine of Washington won a hard fought victory over the host Arundel Exclsiors 17-10 to earn a meeting with the number 2 seeded Talbot Fair Plays.  In the other first round match, the 4 time defending state champion Elkton Eclipse got by the Chesapeake Nine of Baltimore 16-7 in  a match that was much closer than the score indicated.  In the 4th inning, Chesapeake was up 7-4 before being white washed the rest of the way.  This set up a match between the two teams in the Elkton Base Ball Club- the Eclipse and the Cecils.  Cecil went up 4 in the first inning and the Eclipse got one back in the 3rd.  In the first 3 innings the Eclipse left 5 men in scoring position with just one out.  After the Cecils added on another run to go up 5-1, the Eclipse cut it to 5-2 before Chesapeake City put up a 4 spot en route to a 13-5 convincing win to end Elkton’s reign.  On the other field, Talbot methodically took care of business against Potomac winning going away to set up the championship match.  Talbot has made it to the championship all 5 years– and all 5 years came up just short.  In a well played game, the younger Chesapeake City Club took home the championship 9-6.

MAVBBL Championship Tournament Site Set

The Mid Atlantic Vintage Base Ball League has announced the date and site of its championship tournament.  On Sunday, October 2nd, Fort DuPont in Delaware City, Delaware will host the 6 club event featuring the top 6 teams from the league as they battle for the league championship in this seeded single elimination tournament.  Stay tuned to this site for more details and opponents!

Huricane Irene reeked havoc on the Mid Atlantic region last week wipping out a thin slate of matches that were scheduled.  Every town in the League with the exception of Mechanicsburg was affected by the storm in some degree.  Power was not restored in some towns until the middle of this week.  Massive flooding took place in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York.  Winds brought downed trees and power lines to Delaware and Maryland.  Even though it is not in our league, one of the fine clubs in vintage base ball had its town destroyed.  Roxbury, New York in the upper part of the state which is home to the Roxbury Nine was destroyed in the floods that ravaged that area.  They are in real need of assistance from the vintage community as well as others who would like to lend a helping hand.  If you can donate, please log on to this site for more information about how you can help:  http://markproject.org/about-mark/donate.  Their streets are now rivers and they could really use a hand.