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, 20235 min read
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, 20237 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 202113 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20205 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20206 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20208 min read
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, 20206 min read
"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 9, 20204 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20206 min read
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, 20201 min read
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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