Gallery show recalls history of baseball in Hingham

Video Title :	Gallery show recalls history of baseball in Hingham
Description :	One of the 19th century photos shows the Hingham Baseball Club, the members dapper, confident, ready for their Saturday afternoon game, no doubt with some libation. The challengers, Porters Players, are looking a bit scruffy, but what spirit. Then there's the baseball that beaned Tom Murphy's father back in the 1940s -- you can see the ball's split rawhide leather surface. The senior Murphy wrote on the ball at the time: "Ball removed from game. I stayed in." And what's this -- a team in 1900 with three women? Those are some of the surprises and the mysteries in the historic baseball exhibit on display through Nov. 16 at the Dot Gallery, at 112 North St., Hingham. "Hingham Base Ball: An Exhibit of Historic Photos, Art & Artifacts" was put together by gallery owner/director Gary Nisbet and Hingham Historical Society director Suzanne Buchanan, with contributions from local residents. It celebrates how baseball really started in New England -- with town teams -- and became very popular. with town teams. The exhibit was inspired by an earlier event Buchanan and Nisbet created to amplify the national America's favorite pastime past time and stimulate interest in local history. On Sept. 16, there was a vintage baseball game at Derby Academy, with two fictitious 19th century teams, the Derbys and the Coopers, playing ball by 1890s rules. "As word got out about the upcoming game, people started telling us about personal stuff they had, old photographs, uniforms, gloves, artworks and collectibles," Nisbet said. "The items connected them personally with the history of baseball here in Hingham. Some things were so interesting or unique, we decided we had to have an exhibit after the game."
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