Vintage Base Ball - A present day display of games played the way they were in 1864.

Welcome to the New York Gotham Base Ball Club Web site. We are part of a large group of Vintage Base Ball Clubs that strive to present base ball's history to others by playing base ball as it was done in the past.  Our goal is to recreate the game as it was played in 1864 as accurately as possible to share our knowledge of this great game of base ball from an historic standpoint.

The Gothams are playing our 7th season of Vintage Base Ball in New York City.  Our home games are played on either the Great Lawn in New York City's Central Park or in Juniper Valley Park in Middle Village Queens. The team was founded by Drew Frady, a ten + year veteran of the hobby and former treasurer of the Colorado Vintage Base Ball Association, past advisor for the Old Beth Page Historic Base Ball Program, and current president of the VBBA.  The fact that New York City, where the game was essentially invented, lacked such a Vintage organization became one of Mr. Frady's concerns. Through his (and others) hard work and research, Vintage Base Ball is now played in New York City.

6/28/2008 - Juniper Valley Park, Queens - Twas a beautiful and glorious day to play base ball in Middle Village, Queens. The home town New York Gothams hosted the visiting Flemington Neshanock to play two splendiferous games on this fine day. The first game included a tad of controversy as the two clubs had to flee the southeastern part of the meadow in the first inning due to a swarm of young locusts with a strange old leather clad gentlemen leading them getting in the way of the match. After the 2 clubs settled into the opposite end of the field, the match continued with the Gothams continuing in their winning ways with a 27-13 victory. The 2nd match was a much more contested affair with the Gothams tallying an ace in the bottom of the 9th to again find themselves the victors, but this time by a more modest 12-11 score.

1856 Gothams

2006 Gothams

2002 Gothams