Columbus Celebrates Vintage Baseball At The Ohio Cup
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Isaiah Goebel, 11, tucks in his shirt and buttons on his front patch so that he can work the Ohio Cup as the Hamilton Blackbottom 9’s batboy Saturday in Columbus at the Ohio Cup. (WOUB/Jennifer Coombes)Ohio Village Muffins striker Tom Stiteler stretches and waits for his turn at bat during Saturday’s Ohio Cup Vintage Baseball games in Columbus. (WOUB/Jennifer Coombes)Ohio Village Muffins pitcher Patrick “Dinnertime” Garey pitches the ball during one of the team’s games at the Ohio Cup Saturday. Pitchers pitch the ball underhanded in the vintage style. (WOUB/Jennifer Coombes)Larry Hoffman, left, and Duane Koons, right, took a break from playing in the Ohio Cup in Columbus on Saturday to work as tally keepers. Both men are on the Ohio Village Muffins team, which hosts the Ohio Cup each year so that dozens of other vintage baseball teams from all over the United States can play against one another. (WOUB/Jennifer Coombes)Vintage-style baseballs are used as a part of the vintage baseball leagues’ commitment to the first standards and practices of basebasell. The Ohio Village Muffins (OVM) use wooden bats, grassy fields, no mitts and old-style rules for the game. (WOUB/Jennifer Coombes)Columbus’ Ohio Village Muffins member Dan Lehman’s wool vintage baseball hat is just one piece of the authentic uniforms that members of the vintage baseball leagues wear during the Ohio Cup games, baseball games that draw vintage leagues from all over the United States. (WOUB/Jennifer Coombes)Bats,bat bags decorated in ribbons and buttons from the various vintage baseball games participated in decorate bags at the Ohio Cup games on Saturday in Columbus. (WOUB/Jennifer Coombes)The Ohio Cup in the Ohio Village in Columbus hosted dozens of vintage baseball teams from across the United States. The cup is hosted each year by the Columbus team The Ohio Village Muffins where teams can play on their home field. (WOUB/Jennifer Coombes)Rudy “Swamp Fox” Frias and his brother took over running the Columbus Capitols from their father who started the team. Frias said his team is one of the only teams with African American and Hispanic players who play in the Ohio Cup. (WOUB/Jennifer Coombes)Ryan Sliter, a ball boy for the Cincinnati Red Stockings, waits for his father’s team to play. (WOUB/Jennifer Coombes)
Nettey “KlinkKlunk” Johnson, left, and Mike Purcell, right, shake hands after a vintage baseball game at the Ohio Cup on Saturday. (WOUB/Jennifer Coombes)Sean “Musket” Harshbarger, left, and Dennis “Slow and Cautious” Kelley raise their hats and yell “Huzzah” at the end of a vintage baseball game Saturday in Columbus at the Ohio Cup. (WOUB/Jennifer Coombes)Robert “Tripp” Daily shakes hands with this Ohio Village Muffins teammates after a win on Saturday at the Ohio Cup vintage baseball games. (WOUB/Jennifer Coombes)Ohio Village Muffins player Evan Lee runs to first during a vintage baseball game against the Addison Mountain Stars at the Ohio Cup vintage baseball games in Columbus on Saturday. (WOUB/Jennifer Coombes)Ohio Village Muffins players grab their bats and move to a new field during the Ohio Cup vintage baseball games in Columbus on Saturday. (WOUB/Jennifer Coombes)
