The long awaited trip to Kingston New York to play the newly formed Kingston Washington Guards Base Ball Club happened this past weekend and it was quite a success. Of course the main purpose of the visit was to help raise funds for the Angels in the Outfield American Cancer Society group. The Wheelmen were armed with a BIG check valued at over $1,770.
In return the Kingston Guards presented the Wheelmen with a rare framed photo of a 1934 River Valley Baseball team known as Foster Machine...a perennial championship team of the River Valley League here in Westfield from the mid 1910s to the 1950s. The photo was taken at historic Whitney Playground, home of the Westfield Softball League where many of the Wheelmen spend their weeknites from April through October alongside the ghosts of many of these players (see above).
As for the games, the Wheelmen took the doubleheader and executed a rare hidden peeled apple trick much to the delight of the capacity crowd on hand.
A great time was had by all and we hope to return to Kingston in 2011.
Click here to watch an hour and forty-one minute recorded "live" stream of game two.
