MARK STEHLE Photography

Photo Essays: Vintage Baseball

This gallery contains images taken during matches between baseball clubs in the Mid-Atlantic Vintage Baseball League which comprises teams from NY, NJ, PA, MD and DE. During the early development of our national pastime, the rules, terminology and equipment changed frequently until the 1880s when baseball as we know it today began to take shape. The teams in this league play mostly by the rules of 1864. There are many differences to modern baseball, most notably the lack of gloves, underhanded pitching, 3 balls to a walk, and outs which can be recorded on any batted ball caught on one bounce or in the air, foul or fair. All clubs in the league are recreations of actual teams from the time period. 

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  • Gregory {quote}Southwark{quote} Stoloski of the Philadelphia Athletic Base Ball Club.
  • Thomas James {quote}Mouth{quote} Ford of the Philadelphia Athletic Base Ball Club.
  • Bill {quote}Pockets{quote} Freeland of the Elkton Eclipse Base Ball Club from Maryland.
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  • At bat rack at a game between the Philadelphia Athletic Base Ball Club and the Diamond State Base Ball Club in Greenville, DE.
  • Tom {quote}Big Bat{quote} Fesolowich of the Mutal Base Ball Club of New York.
  • A member of the New York Mutuals Base Ball Club.
  • Logan {quote}Lobo{quote} Medkeff of the Diamond State Baseball Club in Greenville, DE, tosses a ball in the air.
  • Ryan {quote}Hurleigh{quote} Berley of the Philadelphia Athletic Base Ball Club leads a cheer for members of the Excelsior Base Ball Club of Arundel in Havertown, PA following a match.
  • From left to right, Jeff {quote}Gator{quote} Wallace, Logan {quote}Lobo{quote} Medkeff, Matt {quote}Black Bart{quote} Barnicki, Doug {quote}One Finger{quote} Brown and Frank {quote}Dutch{quote} Brevoort IV of the Diamond State Baseball Club salute the Philadelphia Athletic Baseball Club following a match in Greenville, DE.
  • Scott {quote}Step Right Up{quote} Alberts, left, and Frank {quote}Huntsman{quote} Tarant of the Philadelphia Athletic Base Ball Club.
  • Ryan {quote}Hurleigh{quote} Berley of the Philadelphia Athletic Base Ball Club.
  • The Mutal BBC of New York delivers to a striker from the Eclipse BBC of Elkton at the Vintage Baseball Festival at the Naval Yards in Philadelphia.
  • The Diamond State Base Ball Club during a match with the Philadelphia Athletic Base Ball Club in Greenville, DE.
  • A water barrel at the Vintage Baseball Festival at the Naval Yards in Philadelphia.
  • Arbiter Jim Constandi of the Elizabeth Resolutes Base Ball Club in Rahway, NJ.
  • Arbiter Jeff {quote}Swampy{quote} Kabacinski of the Diamond State Base Ball Club from Greenville, DE at the Vintage Baseball Festival at the Naval Yards in Philadelphia.
  • Frank {quote}Huntsman{quote} Tarant of the Philadelphia Athletic Base Ball Club attempts a catch against the Diamond State Base Ball Club in Greenville, DE.
  • The Philadelphia Athletic Base Ball Club versus the Diamond State Base Ball Club in Greenville, DE.
  • Steven {quote}Loveseat{quote} Couch of the Philadelphia Athletic Base Ball Club.
  • Ben {quote}Collector{quote} Levinsohn of the NY Gothams Base Ball Club at the Vintage Baseball Festival at the Naval Yards in Philadelphia.
  • Paul {quote}Quickstep{quote} Salomone of the Elizabeth Resolutes Base Ball Club in Rahway, NJ.
  • The Philadelphia Athletic Base Ball Club versus the Elizabeth Reolutes Base Ball Club in Rahway, NJ.
  • Diamond State Baseball Club tally keeper Crissie {quote}Scarlet{quote} Kabacinski in Greenville, DE.
  • Arbiter John Medkeff of the Diamond State Base Ball Club in Greenville, DE officiates a match as Kelsey Carson, left, and Beth {quote}Lady La Salle{quote} Carson look on.
  • John Boyer of the Elkton Eclipse Base Ball Club at the Vintage Baseball Festival at the Naval Yards in Philadelphia.
  • Tom {quote}Schoolboy{quote} Duffy of the Elkton Eclipse Base Ball Club.
  • Steven {quote}Loveseat{quote} Couch, left, Ryan {quote}Hurleigh{quote} Berley, right, and Matthew {quote}Marzipan{quote} Sochor of the Philadelphia Athletic Base Ball Club.
  • The Philadelphia Athletic Base Ball Club plays Fair Play Base Ball Club from Maryland at Memorial Hall in Philadelphia.
  • Jim {quote}Grand Dad{quote} Apple of the Fair Play Base Ball Club from Maryland.
  • Members of the Philadelphia Athletic Base Ball Club.
  • The Philadelphia Athletic Base Ball Club versus the Arundel/Gothams in Havertown, PA.
  • Joey {quote}Midnight{quote} Gallo, left, Ken {quote}Tumbles{quote} Mandel, center, and Tom {quote}Thumbs{quote} Hoepfner of the Flemington Neshanock Base Ball Club.
  • Rob {quote}Lightning{quote} Zappaterrini of the Diamond State Baseball Club in Greenville, DE.
  • Hurler Danny Marcus of the Elizabeth Resolutes Base Ball Club in Rahway, NJ.
  • A member of the Elizabeth Resolutes Base Ball Club in Rahway, NJ.
  • Shawn {quote}Mud{quote} Kelly of the Elizabeth Resolutes Base Ball Club in Rahway, NJ.
  • Arbiter Chris {quote}Ring{quote} Goering of the Diamond State Base Ball Club, center, judges the bat toss between Scott {quote}Step Right Up{quote} Alberts of the Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia and the captain of the Cecil Base Ball Club of Chesapeake City, Md. at the Vintage Baseball Festival at the Naval Yards in Philadelphia.
  • The Philadelphia Athletic Base Ball Club versus the Elizabeth Reolutes Base Ball Club in Rahway, NJ.
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