2012 World Tournament of Historic Base Ball
August 11 & 12, 2012

Saturday, August 11, 2012 (9:30am - 5pm)

Click here to download the 2012 World Tournament of Historic Base Ball program.

• Tournament Games
  9:30am – 5pm • Walnut Grove #1 and #2 and Hawthorne Glade
  See historic baseball games throughout the day
  Earlier games played are done in order to get all Tournament Games completed.
  
  
• Base Ball Artifact Display
  Luther Burbank Birthplace
  Come see the actual championship trophy bat awarded to Unknowns from Jackson, Michigan—winners of the first-class division at the World’s Base Ball Tournament in Detroit in 1867 and an original copy of Haney’s Base Ball Book of Reference for 1867 by Henry Chadwick. These and other base ball artifacts will be on display from the Collections of The Henry Ford.
  
  
• 1867 Base Ball Skill Test
  10am – 5pm • Village Green
  Try your hand at pitching and see how fast you can run the bases
  
  
• Cricket
  11am – 4pm • Village Green
  Learn and play another early stick-and-ball game, cricket with expert Tom Melville
  
  
• Simply Gershwin
  11:30am • 12:45pm • 2:15pm • 3:30pm • Town Hall
  
  
• Model T Medley
  11:45am • 2:30pm • Near Scotch Settlement School
  A 10-minute music medley with a dash of Model T humor.
  
  
• Dodworth Saxhorn Band will perform during the games at Walnut Grove and Hawthorne Glade

Sunday, August 12, 2012 (9:30am - 5pm)

• Tournament Games
  9:30am – 5pm • Walnut Grove #1 and #2 and Hawthorne Glade
  Historic baseball games will be held throughout the day
  Earlier games played are done in order to get all Tournament Games completed.
  
  
• Base Ball Artifact Display
  Luther Burbank Birthplace
  Come see the actual championship trophy bat awarded to Unknowns from Jackson, Michigan—winners of the first-class division at the World’s Base Ball Tournament in Detroit in 1867 and an original copy of Haney’s Base Ball Book of Reference for 1867 by Henry Chadwick. These and other base ball artifacts will be on display from the Collections of The Henry Ford.
  
  
• Dodworth Saxhorn Band will perform during the games at Walnut Grove and Hawthorne Glade
  
  
• 1867 Base Ball Skill Test
  10am – 5pm • Village Green
  Try your hand at pitching and see how fast you can run the bases
  
  
• Cricket
  11am – 4pm • Village Green
  Learn and play another early stick-and-ball game, cricket with expert Tom Melville
  
  
• Simply Gershwin
  11:30am • 12:45pm • 2:15pm • 3:30pm
  Town Hall
  
  
• Model T Medley
  11:45am • 2:30pm • Near Scotch Settlement School
  A 10-minute music medley with a dash of Model T humor.
  
  
• Players Skills Competition
  1:30pm – 2:30pm • Walnut Grove
  Come see the most accurate thrower, the fastest runner and the ball thrown the farthest from among the tournament clubs
  
  
• Championship Game
  2:30pm • Walnut Grove #1
  
  
• Awards Ceremony
  Immediately following the Championship Game
  Walnut Grove #1
  
  The following will be awarded:
  Champion • Finest Catcher • Fastest Base Runner • Farthest Distance Traveled • Reserve Champion • Finest Captain • Finest Pitcher • Henry Chadwick Sportsmanship Award

A $300 cash prize awarded to the champion club, as was one of the original prizes at the 1867 World’s Tournament. The club with the fewest wins will receive a sack of peanuts Awards presented by John Neilson, Director, Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Pottery handcrafted by the artisans of Liberty Craftworks in Greenfield Village.