Rochester bench.

Old-time baseball featured today
The teams belong to the Vintage Base Ball Association, which includes more than 40 national clubs that play the sport as it was in 1860s, less than 20 years after the first recorded baseball match took place in Hoboken, N.J.

Back then, the sport was known as "base ball." Pitchers were called "hurlers." Batters were "strikers," and fans were "cranks." Only wooden bats were used, and balls were hand-sewn.

All of this will be demonstrated during today's tournament, and teams will play in two brackets based on the National Base Ball Association guidelines set in 1860 and 1867, Olson said.

(This was yesterday.)