Rocky Point Historic Base Ball Festival 2019

The Providence Grays present the first Rocky Point Historic Base Ball Festival on Saturday, August 17, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Five vintage teams from the Northeast will play five games following the rules of 1884 and 1864 on two fields with action throughout the day. Rhode Island welcomes the New York Mutuals, Connecticut Bulldogs, Dirigo BBC of Maine, and the Boston Union Base Ball Club as they join the Grays to inaugurate this festival by the bay.

The Rocky Point Festival will take place on the site of the erstwhile amusement park that hosted the only Sunday baseball games allowed in New England from 1891-1917. Rocky Point also won renown in baseball history when Babe Ruth played for the minor league Providence Grays. On September 27, 1914, in an exhibition at Rocky Point against the Chicago Cubs, Ruth pitched the Grays to victory and hit a “tremendous wallop in the third session clearing the hill in right field by half a furlong and bouncing into the water on the other side.”