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Jan 2812 min read

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...

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...

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,...

2021 season in Review Part 2: M.A.C. Returns to Queen City 121 Years Later

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...

2021 Season in Review Part 1: Living History

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...

Securing New (Old) Uniforms - A Journey from 1897 to 2021

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...

FUNDS WILL ADD SIGNAGE AT HISTORIC BALL FIELD

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...

Altrock & Rohe - Fleischmann Adds More Hometown Talent

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...

Cuban Giants Go to Bats with Mountain A.C. at Fleischmann's - August 10-12, 1903

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...

This Day in M.A.C. History - July 31, 1903

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,...

Jay Kirke - Fleischmanns' Homegrown Major League Slugger

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...

Charley "Red" Dooin - Perennial Backstop For the Phils & the 1900 M.A.C.

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...

Founders' Day & The Hon. Julius Fleischmann - Yeast Magnate, Mayor, Baseball Executive & Ballist

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...

"Peekskill Pete" Cregan - Little Known Major Leaguer on the Fleischmann's M.A.C.

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...

Doc White - Fleischmann's Ace of 1900 & Star of the Dead Ball Era

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...

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...

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...

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....