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The Atlantic Base Ball Club ventured to Hawley, PA for an "Afternoon of Vintage Base Ball" sponsored by the Wayne-Pike Adult Literacy Program. Meeting us at Bingham Park were the Roxbury Nine to play an underhand-overhand doubleheader. In the 1864 match, Pigtail of the Atlantics limited the Roxbury bats to three aces and several long outs. While Archie of Roxbury had a solid effort giving up only seven runs to a solid Atlantic batting order. Willy Mo went 3 for 3, while Wildhorse threw out a couple of would-be base stealers in the first game.
The second game, an 1898 affair, featured superb efforts by both Shakespeare and Toothpick. Shakespeare pitched a gem, while gathering 3 hits and 3 runs and Toothpick stopped hitting balls right at the fielders so he could finally reach base, besides calling another excellent game behind the plate. Willy Mo hit into 2 double plays in the second game, but neither one was his fault, one runner wandered off second base on his fly to right and one runner didn't wander off first on his grounder to the first baseman. The Atlantics swept the doubleheader to the score of 21-2.
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