Early Risers Make the news on Fox 2!
The Early Risers were featured on a Fox 2 news pack about vintage baseball. Congrats to the team for making a great showing for the HFWC! See the video by following the link below.
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/sports/main_page/early-risers-vintage-baseball
Vintage baseball is a league where sports and history enthusists meet. Rules for this league are taken from older baseball rules. The HFWC has sponsored a VBBA team since 2009. The team is named the Early Risers, taken from the name of the one of the first baseball teams in Detroit.
Photo By Rebecca Stuurwold
Early Risers 2012 Calendar - as of 5/5/12
Date |
Opponent |
Home/Away |
Time |
May 6 |
Great Black Swamp Frogs | Home | 1 pm |
| June 3 | Mt. Clemen's Regulars | Away | |
| June 10 | Walker Tavern Wheels | Away |
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| June 16 | Rochester Grangers | Away |
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| June 24 | Chelsea Monitors | Home | 1 pm |
| July 8 | Northville Eclipse | Home (Civil War Days) | TBD |
| July 14 | Wyandotte Stars | Away | |
| July 22 | Mansfield Independents | Away - Mansfield, OH | TBD |
| July 29 | Walker Tavern Wheels | Home | 1 pm |
| Aug 4 | Wyandotte Stars | Home | 1 pm |
| Aug 11-12 | World Tournament | Greenfield Village | |
| Aug 18 | London Tecumsehs | Home (1812 event) | TBD |
| Aug 25 | Chelsea Monitors | Away | |
| Sep 1 | Wyandotte Stars | Labor Day Tournament | |
| Sep 15 | Infirmary Inmates | Away - Maumee, OH | |
| Sep 23 | Northville Eclipse | Away - Victorian Festival |
This page will grow in the near future. Look for a photo roster of the 2012 Early Risers. For now, below is a fun photo of the team at a competition held at Greenfield Village in 2010.
