| Vintage Base Ball in Texas |
| Welcome to the home page for the Texas Vintage Base Ball League. Here, we'll define Vintage Base Ball, explain a bit of base ball history, showcase the various vintage base ball teams in Texas and maybe do some entertaining. |
| "It's much more than a base ball game, It's a history lesson as well!" (From the team song, We're A Base Ball Club From Texas) |
| League Newsletter Is Now Available Online! The Chadwick Chronicle, the official Texas Vintage Base Ball League newsletter is now being published and sent out to the club managers for distribution. It will also be reproduced online on this site. The newsletter is created in the style of a mid-1800s newspaper using fonts common in the 1860s. Most of the illustrations will be in the form of computer generated pen and ink drawings made from photographs taken at the events depicted. Articles will be about recent events of interest as well as how-to and editorial pieces. Some of the stories will be taken from emails sent to me from club managers describing games played or trips made by their teams. Those who send or submit those articles will be given the writing credit. The Chadwick Chronicle is named in honor of Henry Chadwick, early sportswriter, chairman of most of the early rules committees, editor of the Beadles Dime Base Ball Player and other publications about the rules of the game, and the creator of the box score. He was also one of the game's most ardent "cheerleaders" in the mid to late eighteen hundreds. His contemporaries referred to him as the "Father of Baseball". You can see copies of the Chronicle here. Wendel Dickason Commissioner, Texas Vintage Base Ball League & Editor of The Chadwick Chronicle _________________________________________________ |
| Website created and maintained by Wendel Dickason wendel@vbbtexas.org |
