A blog on Connecticut Baseball HISTORY.
Most Recent Articles
- Baseball Bloodlines: The Penders Family
- Meriden’s Hesseltine Signals Encore Season with Expos
- Middletown Manager Ruggiero Called Up to Cape Cod League
- Jack Gunshanan, The Hartford Ballplayer Who Batted Down Tuberculosis
- From Meriden to the Majors: Alfred Niemiec’s Baseball Odyssey
- The Town of Vernon Names Field for Krash
- M&T Bank Crowned Playoff Champions on Abbruzzese’s 50th Year
- Jack Steed Slings No-Hitter at Dunkin’ Park
- Holowaty Family Field Named for Hall of Fame Coach
- Farewell To Fonfara, 101 Year Old Hall Of Famer
- Remembering Longtime Umpire, Dave Bindas
- Hartford’s Chest Protector and Payphone Inventor
- The Newington Capitols, A Twilight League Dynasty
- Morgan G. Bulkeley, First President of the National League
- Billy Barnie, the Bluebirds and the Hartford Base Ball Park of 1896
- The Passing Of Vernon Orioles Great, Steve Krajewski
- Campaign Underway to Name Eastern Baseball Stadium After Holowaty
- Whitey Piurek, a Baseball Life
- Rob Dibble Played Hartford Twilight Ball in ’83
- Stadium Series 4 Food Banks at Dunkin’ Park
- Wally Widholm, the Best Twilight Backstop of All-Time
- Honoring the Life of Mark Foss, GHTBL President
- Baseball Bloodlines: The Spanswick Family
- Where Are They Now? GHTBL Players Leading Impressive Careers
- Did You Know? Hank Greenberg Began his Career in Hartford
- Hartford’s First Ball Game Under Electric Lights
- 12 Inducted to GHTBL Hall of Fame, Class of 2023
- Hartford Baseball Talk on Local Radio WLIS/WMRD with Ed Litos
- When Hartford Witnessed the Remarkable Rube Waddell
- Celebrating the Life of Ray Gliha, National Champion
- Hartford’s Minor League Club – Part IV: The Bees (1938-1945)
- Frank Grant: Hall of Fame Trailblazer who Began his Career in Meriden
- Cooper Johnson, Third Generation Twilight Player
- Gary Zavatkay, A Baseball Life
- Four Fields Named After Twilight Hall of Famers
- The Passing of Hall of Famer Leo Bravakis Jr.
- Cobb, Ruth & Wethersfield Avenue Grounds of Old South Hartford
- The Royal Typewriter Baseball Club of Hartford
- Eleven Big Names Inducted to Hall of Fame
- Johnny Taylor: Hartford’s First Professional Black Athlete
- Remembering Allan Garray, an All-Time GHTBL Great
- Cuban Stars of the New Britain Perfectos
- St. Cyril’s Baseball Club, The Semi-Pro Polish-Americans From Hartford
- The Baseball Origins of Dillon Stadium
- Orator Jim O’Rourke, Bridgeport, Connecticut Baseball Pioneer
- CT Patch Features Schweighoffer, Former GHTBL Star
- A Ballpark Timeline: The Polo Grounds
- Hall of Fame Inductee, Doc Bidwell, Ace of the Twilight League
- In the Day of Louis Sockalexis
- Meriden’s Jack Barry, 5-time World Series Champion
- Jack Rich, Most Valuable Player of 2021
- Bill Masse, A Baseball Life
- Bernie Williams Began his Career in the Twilight League
- Baseball Bloodlines: The Burnham Brothers
- Hartford Twilight Manager Spotlight: Tom Abbruzzese
- A Real Connecticut Yankee’s Baseball Career Cut Short
- Hartford All-Timer, Basilio Ortiz, ECSU Warrior Turned Professional
- Hartford Twilight League’s Founder Brought Baseball To Bermuda
- Hartford, A Pioneer Town Back in Baseball
- DiPietro to Enter Berlin High School Hall of Fame
- When the Washington Senators Came to Hartford
- Umpire Charlie Daniels, Baseball Pioneer from Hartford
- Hartford’s Minor League Club, Part III: The Senators (1916-1934)
- Baseball Bloodlines: The Morhardt’s
- Johnny Taylor Field Opens at Colt Park
- Ribbon Cutting at Johnny Taylor Field
Earliest Articles
- Holowaty Named GHTBL President
- Andy Baylock Named GHTBL Vice President
- Remembering Buzzy Levin, GHTBL Hall of Famer
- Pros Playing Hartford Twilight Ball This Season
- President Holowaty Featured by Hartford Courant
- Pete Naktenis, Hartford’s Major League Southpaw
- Jack Patterson & Zac Susi Selected in MLB Draft
- When Jimmie Foxx & the Philadelphia Athletics Came to Hartford
- “The Bat and Ball” Debuts in Hartford
- The Bat and Ball, Discovered at State Library
- Bob Ferguson & the Saga of the Hartford Dark Blues
- When Babe Ruth Barnstormed Greater Hartford
- GHTBL Alumni Enter Hartford Public Hall of Fame
- Roberto Clemente Mural at Hartford’s Colt Park
- Malloves Jewelers Returning to Sponsor Middletown Team
- The Moriarty Brothers Franchise & the Legendary Gene Johnson
- Ted Williams Hits Game-Winning Homer in Hartford
- When Big Papi Rocked New Britain
- Twilight Alum, Pollock Signs Deal with Dodgers
- Bill Savitt, King of Diamonds
- Newcombe Pitched in Hartford Before the Bigs
- Baseball Bloodlines: The Repass Brothers
- Pizzanello’s Return, a Life-changing Experience
- Bulkeley Stadium, Gone But Not Forgotten
- The Legend of Connie Mack Began in Connecticut
- The Hartford Poli’s Baseball Club
- Jimmy Gonzalez, East Hartford’s Greatest
- A Baseball Pioneer from Connecticut, Benjamin Douglas Jr.
- Vernon Orioles Win 5th Consecutive Championship
- A Farewell to Wethersfield Ballplayer, Joe Hallisey
- Jeff Bagwell, From Hartford to the Hall
- Honoring Johnny Taylor at Colt Park in Hartford
- Remembering Owen Canfield and his Twilight League Coverage
- The New York City Baseball Magnate from Colchester, John B. Day
- The Tober Baseball Manufacturing Company
- Chris Denorfia Coming Home to Manage Yard Goats
- Yung Wing & Hartford’s Chinese Base Ball Club
- Steve Brady, From Frog Hollow to the First World Series
- The Charter Oak Base Ball Club of Hartford
- Ed Skehan, WWII Vet & GHTBL Hall of Famer, Passes at 102
- The National Pastime at Pratt & Whitney
- Hal Lewis, Baseball Star from Hartford’s North End
- Hartford’s Minor League Club, Part I: The Hartfords (1878-1901)
- Bill Shea Photographs GHTBL Ball Games
- New Britain’s Tom Thibodeau Played Twilight Ball
- Johnny Taylor Field Charity Series at Dunkin’
- Herb Sheintop, Twilight League Legend
- East Hartford Jets, 2020 Champions
- Bristol’s Baseball Magnate, William J. Tracy
- Barry Chasen Ballpark in Windsor
- The 1870 Connecticut Base Ball Convention
- Greater Hartford’s Own Jose Birriel
- Hartford’s Minor League Club Part II: The Senators (1902-1915)
- Jim Thorpe, Gold Medalist & Hartford Ballplayer
- Jim Schult Named to D3 Team of the Decade
- Baseball Bloodlines: The Riemer’s
- Andy Baylock, Local Coaching Legend
- Babe Ruth’s Connecticut Car Crash
- Willy Yahn’s Baseball Blog
- Leo Durocher Got His Start in Hartford
- Lou Gehrig Used Fake Name as a Rookie on the Hartford Senators
- Bill Holowaty, Local Sports Legend
- The Bristol Merchants, a Twilight League Dynasty
- When Ty Cobb Came to Hartford
- Mark Twain, the Hartford Baseball Crank
- Ron Pizzanello, A Baseball Life
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