Can't Wait for Baseball? Then Check Out the Oakland Colonels!
by BaseballOakland on Mar 9, 2010 10:29 PM PST
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The Bay Area Vintage Baseball League is underway, with its unique brand of vintage 19th century baseball. Oakland's own Colonels start their season this Sunday the 14th @ Oakland Mosswood Park 12:30 PM. BaseballOakland is sure stoked for this! Lets Go Oakland!
P.S for additional games check out the Colonels schedule@http://www.eteamz.com/BAVBB/schedules/index.cfm?season=316781&division=2903167&subsite=3618402&league=2726012
also for other Oakland and A's related information be sure to always check up on http://baseballoakland.com/
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I used to live right next to Mosswood
It tripped me out the first time I saw all the old-timey uniforms. Super awesome.
Cool website
"The A's get some action but they do not score..." -Glen Kuiper
"Anyone who calls themselves the Angels Angels should have to start over and ride the short bus." -timmeh from McCovey Chronicles
And, your very own oblique
plays for the San Jose Dukes in the same league. Check this out, it’s a great time and some good ball!
by oblique on Mar 10, 2010 6:52 AM PST via mobile reply actions
well, there's a pinging endorsement,
I guess that means this post should be rec’d.
sock puppets have never successfully defended castles. -nm
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 10, 2010 3:32 PM PST up reply actions
For future team pictures...
…if someone shows up in jogging shoes and 1980s vintage painted-on stirrups, stash him in the back where they won’t be seen. The bloke at the left end of the front row ruins what would otherwise be a super-cool photo.
Root for the Giants? Not even if they're playing al-Qaeda!
Throw your best apple, Hurler!
Get it! Get it you fool!
What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.
Look!
What is this demonry!?!?!?
"Their batters are patient to the point that it's annoying." -Ryan Franklin
by Helloooo 1st on Mar 10, 2010 9:20 PM PST up reply actions
A good reason to post this.
Can’t find it on YouTube or NBC (which appears to have scrubbed itself of Conan O’Brien material).
yeah that was the first that came to my mind
What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.
kid's bbal
http://www.sfybl.com/ is in the house.
You can see and hear the Colonels and Dukes on the California Report from 2008.
It's the fans that make the game fun. -- Rickey Henderson, July 26, 2009.
Was the vintage game against the all-stars/hall-of-famers this same organization?
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige
Not really.
From what I understand (and I don’t know the whole story), one of the teams from this organization had a different take on how vintage ball should be played, and left the league. That team sponsored the event to which you are referring, which, from what I hear, was pretty awesome.
I've been meaning to check out a game,
and it just so happens Mosswood is down the street from my house…
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. -Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
Vintage ball is interesting beyond just the uniforms.
Watching a vintage game, you can see why a lot of today’s game evolved the way it did. The game was extremely offense-oriented — the defenders had gloves with no webbing, so putting the ball in play gave a batter good odds of getting on base.
It took seven balls to walk. Still three strikes to strike out, but a foul (unfair hit) was not a strike, ever, even on a bunt. But, an unfair hit is always in play — in other words, if you hit a foul tip and the catcher hangs on, you’re out, because it’s no different from hitting a foul pop-up and having it be caught.
Also, you know how in MLB the batter can run to first base if nobody is on first? In 1886, the batter HAD to run to first, and if there were other runners on base, they had to run too. Now, imagine the following scenario: bases loaded, one out, and the batter strikes out. The catcher can then drop the ball, pick it up, step on home plate for the force out, and throw to first for the double play. Evil!
Lots more interesting stuff, from the hurler’s box (no mound!) being 50 feet from the plate, to quick pitches and hidden ball tricks, to a hit batter just being a ball, to the 43oz wooden bats. If you love baseball, you really should check out one of these games!
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