A Most Prolific Season It Was...
Since the Club was reinvigorated in 2017, the M.A.C. has certainly lived up to it's alias, "Mountain Tourists" - a name it garnered from...
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Collin Miller
- Mar 15, 2023
- 5 min
Famous M.A.C. photo returns home
Through connections made in a town history group on social media, a legendary photograph of the Fleischmanns Mountain Athletic Club...
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Collin Miller
- Feb 26, 2023
- 7 min
2022 Season Revisited
Recounting the M.A.C.'s most prolific season to date While its looking like March will roar into the Catskills like a lion this year, I,...
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Collin Miller
- Jan 9, 2022
- 4 min
2021 season in Review Part 2: M.A.C. Returns to Queen City 121 Years Later
Re-creations of the early game are common in the Midwest. There are several dozen clubs throughout the rust belt playing almost...
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Collin Miller
- Nov 28, 2021
- 13 min
2021 Season in Review Part 1: Living History
The Mountain A.C. began it's '21 campaign in the Fall of 2020 leveraging patron's generosity on Giving Tuesday raising over $1,200 for...
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Collin Miller
- May 10, 2021
- 5 min
Securing New (Old) Uniforms - A Journey from 1897 to 2021
Researching the M.A.C. uniforms at the turn of the last century On this day in Mountain Athletic Club history (May 11, 1897), the...
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Collin Miller
- Mar 1, 2021
- 2 min
FUNDS WILL ADD SIGNAGE AT HISTORIC BALL FIELD
In late February 2021, the Historical Society of the Town of Middletown (HSM) received $1,238 from Network For Good to pay for a new...
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Collin Miller
- Sep 30, 2020
- 5 min
Altrock & Rohe - Fleischmann Adds More Hometown Talent
With September drawing to a close in our 125th anniversary season, it's time to highlight two former M.A.C.'s, George "Whitey" Rohe and...
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Collin Miller
- Aug 9, 2020
- 4 min
Cuban Giants Go to Bats with Mountain A.C. at Fleischmann's - August 10-12, 1903
Game's players draw a connection between the first all black professional baseball club featuring Bill "Hippo" Galloway - the last person...
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Collin Miller
- Jul 31, 2020
- 4 min
This Day in M.A.C. History - July 31, 1903
(This post was updated on August 5, 2020.) The Hon. Julius Fleischmann's "tally-ho" to meet the Governor at the Margaretville Fair,...
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Collin Miller
- Jun 25, 2020
- 6 min
Jay Kirke - Fleischmanns' Homegrown Major League Slugger
Kirke was in the lineup for Babe Ruth's first win and Cy Young's last This post was last updated on May 6, 2022... If they ever build a...
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Collin Miller
- Jun 12, 2020
- 2 min
Charley "Red" Dooin - Perennial Backstop For the Phils & the 1900 M.A.C.
Born June 12, 1879 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Red Dooin played along side fellow Cincinnatians, Miller Huggins and George "Whitey" Rohe on the...
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Collin Miller
- Jun 10, 2020
- 8 min
Founders' Day & The Hon. Julius Fleischmann - Yeast Magnate, Mayor, Baseball Executive & Ballist
June 8, 2020 As I sit down to write this post, it only now occurs to me that last year, on this very day - rather serendipitous and...
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Collin Miller
- Apr 18, 2020
- 6 min
"Peekskill Pete" Cregan - Little Known Major Leaguer on the Fleischmann's M.A.C.
This week in Mountain Athletic Club history on April 13, 1875, Peter Cregan was born in Kingston, NY. "Peekskill" Pete reportedly joined...
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Collin Miller
- Apr 10, 2020
- 4 min
Doc White - Fleischmann's Ace of 1900 & Star of the Dead Ball Era
Yesterday, (April 9) in Mountain Athletic Club history, a crafty lefty named Guy Harris "Doc" White (shown top row with collar up, and...
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Collin Miller
- Mar 28, 2020
- 2 min
Happy Birthday "Hug"
Yesterday, in Mountain Athletic Club history, Miller James Huggins - among the best second basemen of the dead-ball era and one of the...
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Collin Miller
- Mar 2, 2020
- 6 min
Will the Real Honus Please Stand Up?
(This post has been updated since it's first publishing on 2/24/20.) On this day in M.A.C. History, February 24, 1874, "The Flying...
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Collin Miller
- Feb 29, 2020
- 1 min
On this day in M.A.C. History...
(This post is an update of an original blog that appeared on 2/8/20). James Wear "Bug" Holliday was born on February 8, 1867 in St....
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The M.A.C. is sponsored by the A. Lindsay and Olive B. O' Connor Foundation, AB Mauri (Fleischmann's Yeast), Delaware County Tourism & Promotion Development Grant, fans and players alike. Administrative support is provided by M-ARK Project, Inc. - a 501 (c) (3) rural community development organization. Tax-deductible contributions accepted here (note MAC Baseball).
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