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Vintage Base Ball - Safe! - Catching the ball with no glove, as Elkton Eclipse third baseman Glyn "Hammer" Richards, from Mt. Ephraim, NJ, does over the slide of Washington Mutual's left fielder Buck "Not So" Sharp, is one of the is one of the quirkier facets of playing 1860's rules base ball. The Elkton Eclipse hosted the New York Mutuals Sunday July 9th, 2006 for a game of vintage base ball on the Eclipse's home turf at the Historic Elk Landing grounds...No gloves. A fly ball can bounce once and still be called an out, and trees regularly appeared on the playing fields. This was how baseball was played in the 1860's and a few fanatics across the nation rekindled the spark that started the national pastime. Vintage base ball -- spelled with two words -- is making headway in Maryland with four established clubs who regularly compete with other clubs across the nation.

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Vintage Base Ball - Safe! - Catching the ball with no glove, as Elkton Eclipse third baseman Glyn "Hammer" Richards, from Mt. Ephraim, NJ, does over the slide of Washington Mutual's left fielder Buck "Not So" Sharp, is one of the is one of the quirkier facets of playing 1860's rules base ball. The Elkton Eclipse hosted the New York Mutuals Sunday July 9th, 2006 for a game of vintage base ball on the Eclipse's home turf at the Historic Elk Landing grounds...No gloves. A fly ball can bounce once and still be called an out, and trees regularly appeared on the playing fields. This was how baseball was played in the 1860's and a few fanatics across the nation rekindled the spark that started the national pastime. Vintage base ball -- spelled with two words -- is making headway in Maryland with four established clubs who regularly compete with other clubs across the nation.