Under gloriously sunny and comfortably warm skies, Lansdale’s newest pickup baseball team the Foxes fell to the experienced bats of the Brandywine Base Ball Club Saturday at Weaver Field, 21-3.
Not quite as one-sided as the headline score suggests, though, the game – featuring middle-aged and moderately aching players such as John "Lefty” Ernst, "Wild Bill” Henning, Jason "Voodoo” Van Dame, Denton "Switch” Burnell, Ed "The Judge” Levine, Fritz "The Rev” Fowler and Garry "Herb” Herbert
(see their Baseball Cards by clicking here) – was somewhat of a triumph for the Lansdale Foxes.
They only had two practices. They lasted seven innings. They scored.
And they were playing the vintage Brandywine team under unfamiliar 1864 rules of the game, including no gloves allowed.
Hundreds came to enjoy the old-time baseball doubleheader and community picnic sponsored by Discover Lansdale at Memorial Park, which also featured music in the "Mayor Mike” DiNunzio Memorial Gazebo by '60s tribute band Elastic Karma, lawn games and amusements, kids' activities with local author Mark Bryson (The Gnatural), and food and drink by Well Crafted Beer, the Cannoneers, and the Lansdale Lions Club.
We’ve collected a photo gallery of the day below, so North Penn Now readers can enjoy as well.
Associate Editor Bruce Schwartz is also a board member of Discover Lansdale.
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