"The Old Year Passes"

The last post about Charles Ebbets salary negotiations with Casey Stengel was the 300th since A Manly Pastime first saw the light of the Internet in February of 2012 and will be the final post for this calendar year.  Typically we take a break until January, but this year the hiatus will be extended.  At the latest we'll be back in April for the opening of the 2019 Neshanock season, but a March return is also possible.  The reason for the extended break is that I need to focus on the last stages of another big project - the upcoming baseball exhibit at Historic Morven in Princeton and the companion book.  Originally the exhibit was to cover New Jersey baseball - 1855 to 1880, but for a number of reasons, the period has been extended through 1915.  That will enable us to explore baseball in the Garden State from its earliest beginnings through the one season when New Jersey had a major league team - the short lived Newark Peppers in the equally short lived Federal League.  The companion book will still cover New Jersey base ball through 1880.

One of my goals when the blog returns is to anticipate the Morven exhibit by giving readers some sense of the different stories to be told and the topics to be covered.  In addition there will be plenty of coverage of the 2019 vintage base ball season, focusing, of course, on the Flemington Neshanock.  The blog seems to be fairly popular in vintage base ball circles which I greatly appreciate.  But regardless of whether a reader's interest is vintage base ball, the game's history or anything else, I sincerely thank everyone who has taken the time to read.  At this point in my writing career, my highest goal is to be read and for that I am truly thankful.  Best wishes to everyone for the holidays and all of 2019.