Melrose Pondfeilders Make ESPN.com

The Melrose Pondfeilders are featured in an article on ESPN.com's Page 2 about the National Silver Base Ball Tournament held this past weekend in upstate New York.

Yes, "Base Ball," with a space between the words. The Pondfeilders and other teams participating in the tournament play vintage base ball by 1860s rules: no gloves, no called balls or strikes, and a ball caught on one bounce is an out.

According to the ESPN article, the ninth annual National Silver Base Ball Tournament drew teams Maryland, Ohio, and Ontario, Canada to Genesee Country Village, a living history museum in Mumford, NY.

Watch the attached video from a vintage base ball game played at Morelli Field in Melrose last September between the Pondfeilders and the Essex Nine, and read more about the tournament at ESPN.com.