Looking back on a prior year's season is an annual ritual that gets us (and we hope you, the reader) through the winter doldrums. From...

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...

Through connections made in a town history group on social media, a legendary photograph of the Fleischmanns Mountain Athletic Club...

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,...

Re-creations of the early game are common in the Midwest. There are several dozen clubs throughout the rust belt playing almost...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Game's players draw a connection between the first all black professional baseball club featuring Bill "Hippo" Galloway - the last person...

(This post was updated on August 5, 2020.) The Hon. Julius Fleischmann's "tally-ho" to meet the Governor at the Margaretville Fair,...

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...

Born June 12, 1879 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Red Dooin played along side fellow Cincinnatians, Miller Huggins and George "Whitey" Rohe on the...

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...

This week in Mountain Athletic Club history on April 13, 1875, Peter Cregan was born in Kingston, NY. "Peekskill" Pete reportedly joined...

Yesterday, (April 9) in Mountain Athletic Club history, a crafty lefty named Guy Harris "Doc" White (shown top row with collar up, and...

Yesterday, in Mountain Athletic Club history, Miller James Huggins - among the best second basemen of the dead-ball era and one of the...

(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...

(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....