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Saturday, August 8, 9:30am - 9pm
Greenfield Village open until 9pm including
fireworks finale
- Tournament Games
9:30am – 6pm • Walnut Grove #1 and #2 and Hawthorne Glade
See historic baseball games throughout
the day
- Massachusetts Rules Game
10am – 6:30pm • Village Green
Play the pre-Civil War stick-and-ball game
that preceded the game of 1867
- 1867 Base Ball Skill Test
10am – 6pm • Village Green
Try your hand at pitching and see how fast you can run the bases
- Simply Gershwin
11:30am •12:45pm • 2:15pm • 3:30pm
5pm • 6pm •Town Hall
Celebrate the music of George Gershwin in
this lively 30-mintue music and comedy revue
- Know Your Tigers Then & Now
Town Hall
Noon – 1pm • Zach Miner
2pm – 3pm • 1984 Tiger Rod Allen
5pm – 6pm • 1968 Tiger Mickey Stanley
- Players Skills Competition
12:30pm – 1:30pm • Walnut Grove
Come see the most accurate thrower, the
fastest runner and the ball thrown the
farthest from among the tournament clubs
- "A Pitch Over Time"
Special Presentation
6pm - 7pm • Walnut Grove #1
- Dodworth Saxhorn Band Concert
7pm • Village Green
Sit back and enjoy one of America's
premier 19th-century brass bands
Sunday, August 9, 9:30am - 5pm
- Tournament Games
9:30am – 5pm • Walnut Grove #1 and #2 and Hawthorne Glade
Historic baseball games will be held
throughout the day
- Massachusetts Rules Game
10am – 5pm • Village Green
Play the pre-Civil War stick-and-ball game that preceded the game of 1867
- 1867 Base Ball Skill Test
10am – 5pm • Village Green
Try your hand at pitching and see how fast
you can run the bases
- Cricket
11am – 4pm • Village Green
Learn and play another early stick-and-ball game, cricket
- Simply Gershwin
11:30am • 12:45pm • 2:15pm • 3:30pm
Town Hall
Celebrate the music of George Gershwin in
this lively 30-minute music and comedy revue
- Know Your Tigers Then & Now
Town Hall
Noon – 1pm • 1984 Tiger Doug Bair
1pm – 2pm • 1968 Tiger Mickey Lolich
2:30pm • Championship Game, Walnut Grove #1 • Dave Rozema
- Championship Game
2:30pm • Walnut Grove #1
See the match that will determine the winner
of the Greenfield Village Cup. Also see 1984 Tiger Dave Rozema throw out the first pitch.
- Awards Ceremony
Immediately following the Championship Game
Walnut Grove #1
The following will be awarded:
Champion • Finest Club Uniform • Fastest
Base Runner • Farthest Distance Traveled •
Reserve Champion • Finest Captain •
Finest Pitcher • Henry Chadwick Sportsmanship Award
A $300 cash prize awarded to the champion club, as was one of the original prizes at the 1867 World’s
Tournament. The club with the fewest wins will receive a sack of peanuts
Awards presented by John Neilson, Director, Henry Ford Museum
and Greenfield Village. Pottery handcrafted by the artisans of
Liberty Craftworks in Greenfield Village.
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