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BRIEF HISTORY Vintage base ball is a fast growing sport (225 clubs from 32 states), which features amateur clubs adhering to the rules, uniforms, equipment and gentlemanly competitive play of baseball's 19th century roots. Until recently the game has been mostly a local phenomenon, with clubs playing weekend games in open parks under a variety of rules. The game is marked by an array of historical details that are enjoyed by both players ("ballists") and fans ("cranks"). Players in baggy uniforms wield fat handle bats at lemon peel stitched balls that are caught with what appear to be gardening gloves. Above all, it's a gentleman's game in which there is no showboating or taunting, and the umpire is always addressed as "Sir." The first vintage games were played in Old Bethpage, NY, in 1980 between groups of friends who shared a love of baseball and history. These were 1860s style games that dictated bare hands and underhand pitching. Recently, however, vintage clubs have been gravitating to the 1880s overhand style, which allows the use of a glove that is no bigger than a man's hand. (In 1995, an organization called the Vintage Base Ball Association was formed to help vintage clubs across the country communicate with each other. Most Association members play the 1860s underhand glove-less game. For more about this organization go to VBBA.org.) On July 3, 2004, vintage base ball took a quantum leap forward when Jim Bouton and VBBF board member Chip Elitzer staged a special vintage game event that drew 6,000 fans to Wahconah Park in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and was nationally broadcast live by ESPN Classic. The 1880s style game, in which Martin's Hartford Senators beat Bouton's Pittsfield Hillies 14-12, featured an antique car parade, period music, and costumed actors, and received national media attention. "It was a picture postcard come to life," wrote Joe Palladino of the Waterbury (CT) Republican, "a jittery old black and white newsreel that burst into living color, and a stroll through a museum where you were permitted to reach out and touch the history."