Curious about how baseball was played in the 1860s? This weekend’s World Tournament of Historic Base Ball in Dearborn, Mich., gives you a chance to see what our national pastime was originally like. Set on the grounds of Greenfield Village , an 80-acre historic community established by Henry Ford in 1929, the competition pays homage to the first World’s Base Ball Tournament held in 1867 in Detroit, with teams playing by the rules, and with the same equipment and uniforms, as their 19th-century counterparts. [+] Enlarge photo (Courtesy The Henry Ford) The tournament, in its seventh year, will pit 16 vintage ball clubs from Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana—including Greenfield Village’s own Nationals and Lah-De-Dahs—against each other in a series of 28 games over two days, starting at 9:30 a.m. on August 8 and culminating in the championship August 9 at 2:30 p.m. The prize for the winning team: $300, same as it was in 1867. And the team with the fewest wins doesn’t go home empty-handed. That ball club scores a sack of peanuts

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