A Warm Embrace as Bovina Rallies Again at Rocky Point
A cool rain falls. Mercifully at first—everyone remembers the scorching, swampy summer of just a few days ago. But as it continues, we...
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Nicholas Frandsen
- Jul 25, 2022
- 5 min
Dairymen Dazzle at Gettysburg
Once a year, Gettysburg’s Schroeder Farm Reenactment Field hosts a different type of event: the Gettysburg Vintage Base Ball Festival. 32...
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Nicholas Frandsen
- Jun 6, 2022
- 5 min
Storybook Rally Lifts Dairymen to 5-0
It was the kind of thing you hear about from your grandfather every time the younger version of yourself stormed off the field and hung...
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Nicholas Frandsen
- May 17, 2022
- 3 min
Dairymen Welcome Kingston to League with Friendly Rout
Baseball has the most natural rhythm of all the sports: it starts when the leaves first turn green, and ends when the last have fallen....
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Nicholas Frandsen
- Oct 13, 2021
- 7 min
Dairymen Stave Off MAC in Instant Classic; Finish Season 14-4
Who is the man in the arena? Why does he steam and swear and try to make so that which otherwise is not? Is it the thrill of victory—a...
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Nicholas Frandsen
- Oct 6, 2021
- 3 min
Dairymen Split; MAC Sweep at Inaugural Cowtown Scramble
The inevitable march of time takes one of two directions during the Catskill Mountain autumn. For some, time slows as single leaves fall...
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Nicholas Frandsen
- Sep 22, 2021
- 4 min
Fleischmanns Minor Leaguer Outduels Bovina Ace
The day dawned innocent, with a fog clinging to the valleys and the sun slowly burning through to the stream beds below. In the fields,...
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Nicholas Frandsen
- Aug 5, 2021
- 4 min
A 10% Day in Bovina; Dairymen Improve to 11-1
The infamous and ubiquitous ‘they’ say life is 90% maintenance, and 10% everything else. If true, that means adventure, play, and...
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Nicholas Frandsen
- Jul 26, 2021
- 4 min
Bovina Offense Rolls Through DelCo Historical Association Hay Fields; Improves to 10-1
On Saturday, all three Delaware County teams—the Fleischmanns Mountain Athletic Club, Bovina Dairymen, and Delhi Vintage Base Ball...
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Nicholas Frandsen
- Jul 1, 2021
- 3 min
Dairymen Rattle the New England Circuit; Stay Perfect on the Road
There is no straight line from Bovina to Hartford, Connecticut. North on Route 10, northeast on Interstate 88, east on Interstate 90, and...
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Nicholas Frandsen
- Jun 15, 2021
- 3 min
Bovina Cruises to Win, But Newly Formed Delhi VBBC Hangs Tough
Last Sunday, the newly formed Delhi Vintage Base Ball Club played their first-ever game. Oh, what a day of firsts it was! For the first...
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Nicholas Frandsen
- May 30, 2021
- 6 min
Rainy Memorial Day (No Baseball Today)
When you’re young and idealistic, you want to sacrifice yourself for the good of the cause. It’s not only encouraged in the military, but...
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Nicholas Frandsen
- May 19, 2021
- 3 min
Dairymen Live and Die by the Big Inning at Brewery Ommegang
There are some places that need no modifier. No adjectives, no state abbreviation, no explanations—the name immediately conjures a host...
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Nicholas Frandsen
- May 10, 2021
- 4 min
Springtime in the Mountains: Dairymen Open with Two Wins vs. Brooklyn
They started out down some dirty road. Alone in a nameless rivulet, bubbling respectfully over a budding hillside they wound their way...
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Nicholas Frandsen
- Oct 3, 2020
- 5 min
MAC, Dairymen Split DH in Wild Finish to Wild Season
Last Saturday in Bovina, the hometown Dairymen and the Fleischmanns Mountain Athletic Club split a doubleheader in the last contest of...
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Nicholas Frandsen
- Sep 20, 2020
- 3 min
Leaders Gather at Historic Muzzy Field for 3rd Annual John Martin All Star Game
On September 20th, 2020, the Northeast Vintage Base Ball All Stars gathered at historic Muzzy Field in Bristol, CT for their annual game....
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Nicholas Frandsen
- Sep 19, 2020
- 3 min
Dairymen Best Wheelmen as Toddy “Meatloaf” Possemato Returns to Lineup
Last Saturday, the Bovina Dairymen played the Wheelmen of Westfield, MA in their first contest of the year played by the rules of 1886....
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Nicholas Frandsen
- Sep 5, 2020
- 3 min
Bovina Bats Too Much for Star-Powered Fleischmanns
As Bovina Valley slept, a heavy dew settled the night before the contest. But for the captain, the day awakes to the clatter of duties,...
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Nicholas Frandsen
- Aug 22, 2020
- 3 min
Late Stumbles Doom Dairymen; Season Series Leveled With MAC
Last Saturday, the home Mountain Athletic Club of Fleischmanns rallied for eleven runs in the last three frames to draw the season series...
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Nicholas Frandsen
- Aug 1, 2020
- 5 min
A Real-Life Field of Dreams: An Interview with Myself
Dairymen and Women— I sat down to do the writeup this week having just watched Field of Dreams for the first time in ten years, and what...
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