Boerne White Sox Vintage Base Ball

02/10/2022

5th Annual Baseball Heritage Symposium
presented by Col. Abner Doubleday/Judge Howard Green
West Texas SABR Chapter

Date: Saturday February 12th, 2022
Location: Fort Concho National Historic Landmark in San Angelo, TX.

8:30-9:00
Coffee Social

9:00-9:15
Introduction & SABR info
Dr. Warren Simpson – Chapter President

9:15-9:50
Baseball Players of Color: Oklahoma’s Warriors on the field
Dr. John Winters

9:55-10:30
Baseball in early San Angelo: 1880-1960
Bob Bluthardt – Chapter VP

10:30-10:45
Trivia Contest #1

10:45-11:20
The Bible & Baseball: Similar terms and striking analogies
Dr. Ron Rainwater

11:25-Noon
Four Outs in an inning & other baseball stories and trivia
Al Pickett

12:05-12:15
Trivia Contest #2

12:15-1:00
Pizza Lunch

1:00-1:30
VBBA rules and state of play
Cory Robinson- VBBA Coordinator

1:35
Thanks for coming, hope you enjoyed yourself and hope we will see you at our next HOT STOVE! Consider joining our SABR Chapter.

04/25/2021

1952 Boerne White Sox, Champs, Hill Country League.

02/28/2020

Here Ye, Here Ye - Announcement!!!
From our friends at Fort Concho:

08/07/2019

These are great!

The Lightfoot Club wants to recognize the fantastic photographs designed and produced by Christopher "Cap" West. In the style of the 1850s, Cap created Carter de Visite (CdV) and Cabinet cards; thin paper photograph mounted on a thicker paper card. Absolutely tremendous and we thank you!

05/14/2019

In the grandest display of Vintage Base Ball, the Tennessee Association of Vintage Base Ball invites you to the hallowed grounds of the Carnton Plantation in Franklin, TN for the Inaugural Franklin Vintage Base Ball Festival.

One day… Two fields… Eight games… Twelve teams… Hundred and Eighty ballists…


Sunday, May 19, 2019, travel back in time as ALL 12 teams from the TAoVBB will take the field in a display of 1864 Civil War era barehanded Base Ball. There will be two fields hosting the fine women and men of the TAoVBB with games played on both fields at 9:00am, 11:00am, 1:00pm and 3:00pm.

This is the place you want to be this Sunday. You will not find anything more entertaining, intriguing or just plain fun than watching 1864 Vintage Base Ball!

You will be witness to cheers of HUZZAH!! for outstanding catches, gasps as a daisy cutter whistles through the infield or a slap of the skin as a third base tender paws a line ball from the willow of a Muckle. You’ll hear the arbiter bellow out, “STRIKER TO THE LINE!” And see the great game of Base Ball as it was played by Civil War soldiers between battles.

Bring a chair, a blanket, your favorite lunch and liquids for your nourishment. Come be a part of the Franklin Vintage Base Ball Festival.

04/03/2019

Conan playing vintage base ball takes the cake!

Conan's best remote segment.

01/22/2019

The first set of rules for base ball.

The 1857 Convention of Base Ball Players met for the first time on January 22 at Smith’s Hotel, the headquarters of the Knickerbocker Club, with the following clubs represented: Knickerbocker, Gotham, Eagle, Empire, Putnam, Baltic, Excelsior, Atlantic, Harmony, Harlem, Eckford, … Continue readin...

01/16/2019

This is "Elmer Ralph Bergmann" by Charles Culton on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

01/11/2019

Elmer Bergmann played with the original Boerne White Sox team and on our vintage team into his 90’s.

01/11/2019

We’ll miss you “Flyboy”.

May 17, 1922 - January 9, 2019 Elmer Ralph Bergmann May 17, 1922 – January 9, 2019 Elmer Ralph Bergmann, a Boerne native, veteran of World War II, a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force, well driller, husband, father, grandfather, uncle, and friend passed from this world on Ja...

01/03/2019