Result
| Date | Home Team | Away Team | ||
| Exhibition Match | Venue: Mardyke, UCC | |||
| 25.07.1917 | USS Trippe | 7 | USS Melville | 6 |
Report
A match, suggested by Admiral Sims, was played on the grounds of University College Cork, was played in aid of a wartime charity by two US Naval Vessels: USS Trippe and USS Melville. Despite being delayed by over a week due to rain, it attracted a large crowd, who witnessed USS Trippe win by 7 runs to 6.
Around 3,000 people attended, and the band of the 3rd battalion, the Leinster Regiment, played a selection of music, finishing with the US and British National Anthems.
A warm-up match had been played by USS McDougal and USS Wadsworth. The match raised £90 for the Cork War Workers Fund.
The Navy created a Baseball Diamond at Ringaskiddy, beside Ballybricken House, afterwards, and a Baseball bat from Ballybricken is in the Cobh Museuem.
A re-enactment took place at the Mardyke, UCC, exactly a century later, also in aid of charity (Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind) when a team of visiting US Students, attending a Summer Camp at UCC, along with a few expats, took on the ‘Cork Rebel Alliance’. the location was at the exact same place as the original match 100 years previously.
References
Newspapers
[1] O’Riordan, Sean (2017) “Famous Baseball game by US Sailors recreated in Cork” Irish Examiner. Wednesday, July 26, 2017. [Internet] Available from: https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/famous-baseball-game-by-us-sailors-recreated-in-cork-455663.html [Accessed 28 July 2017]
[2] Duncan, Mark (2017) “An Irishman’s Diary” The Irish Times. Wednesday, August 23, 2017.
Images
[3] Anon. (2017) “Milligan from the Melville team hits a mighty stroke playing in the baseball match against Trippe at the Mardyke on July 25, 1917.” Irish Examiner. Wednesday, July 26, 2017. [Internet] Available from: https://www.irishexaminer.com/remote/media.central.ie/media/images/z/zzzMardykeBaseballMatch1917A_large.jpg?width=648&s=ie-455663 [Accessed 28 July 2017]
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Frank Kingston.
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