Sandy Hooks Set For Vintage Base Ball Season

By ANDY HUTCHISON

Published: Apr 08, 2011 12:00 am

The Newtown Sandy Hooks Vintage Base Ball team will begin the seventh season of 19th century base ball this Saturday, April 9, when the team hosts the newly-formed Liberty Base Ball Club. The teams will meet at McLaughlin Vineyard on Albertâs Hill Road in Sandy Hook at 11 am. They will play an 1864 match, followed by a second match of yet to be determined rules. âMisterâ Jay Edwards will hurl for the Sandy Hooks.

The Liberty club is patterned after a Norwalk based club that played in southern New England in the mid-1860âs.

Newtown Sandy Hookâs home schedule is as follows: April 9 - Norwalk Liberty,Â April 30 - Waterbury Connors,Â May 21 - Eckford of Brooklyn, June 11 - Brooklyn Atlantics, July 9 - New London Thames, July 16 - New York Gotham. All matches scheduled for Saturdays at 11 am at McLaughlin Vineyard.

For more information, visit www.vbbnewtown.com

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