Silver Baseball Park
The most recent addition to the museum's grounds is Silver Baseball Park. Americans have enjoyed baseball for nearly 200 years. The park was built to provide the historical background to this American pastime. Silver Baseball Park is the first replica 19th-century base ball park in America, and began its operation on August 11, 2001.
Currently, the museum has six ladies' and men's teams, dressed in period-style uniforms that face off each Saturday and Sunday, playing with period-appropriate equipment and by 1866 rules. Visitors can view the games from wooden bleachers that face an outfield fence sporting period-style advertising. A manual scoreboard is operated by two young lads on scaffolding while a press box tower is home to a tally keeper and announcer. Concessions are available and include peanuts, birch beer and other period-appropriate food.
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