Miscellaneous
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1st Nine Equipment Info
The uniform will consist of:
- team shirt
- pair of knickers
- dark shoes or modern rubber cleats (metal cleats not allowed)
- belt
- period cap
- dark blue/navy socks
2nd Nine Equipment Info
Role of the Umpire
One of the best outlines of what a vintage base ball Umpire does can be found at the website of the The Vintage Base Ball Association. Please follow the link below to read more:
Umpire Wardrobe
Miscellaneous Equipment
Other equipment:
- 3 (min.) - canvas base bags
- 12 - stakes/fasteners for bases
- sand/sawdust fill for bases
- 2 - one-foot dia. round metal plates with spikes, painted white, for home and pitcher
- flour or chalk for marking lines
- measuring rope, properly divided
- reproduction bats
- reproduction balls
- carrying case/bag for bats and balls
- tally book
- tally table (folding wood table)
- wood chairs or stools
- tally bell (optional)
- fine collection jar or bucket
- score board/telegraph board
- water buckets/jugs
- metal drinking cups
- metal scoop
- ice chunks/water for drinking
- baskets or sacks to carry valuables and conceal other 20th/21st century
items - manual/handbook(s) for players and sideline interpreters
- souvenir program for cranks