Take Me Out To The Old, Old Ball Game

On Tuesday, Major League Baseball’s All Stars will jet into Phoenix to play the old ball game.

But starting Friday, six teams from around the Midwest will be barnstorming French Lick, Ind., to play the old, old, old ball game.

It’s vintage "base ball" − a two-word construction purists will recognize as the proper way to address the then-nascent national pastime from circa 1864.

No mound. No designated hitter. No lights. No radar guns. No flashy three-story scoreboard. No Miley Cyrus blaring from the loudspeakers.

Is this heaven?

Nope, it’s the pastoral grounds of the French Lick Resort, a place that’s always bingeing on history (the acclaimed resort  hosts the throwback U.S. Hickory Open Golf Championship for vintage golfers on its Donald Ross course between July 11 and 13).

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