Started as a townball club in the days of the Civil War, the Buckeye Base Ball Club predated their famous rivals, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, by a little more than a year. Yet, they were all but forgotten to history as the Red Stockings became the nation’s first all-professional base ball club and made Cincinnati a one-team town.

Today, the Cincinnati Buckeyes have returned to play the great game of base ball, with the hopes of educating folks on base ball's earliest days as well as entertaining baseball fans young and old. Their home field is at Heritage Village in Sharon Woods Park - a beautiful collection of houses and other structures from the Civil War era. Here at home, the game is played as faithfully as possible to 1869 rules and customs - barehanded fielding, uniforms and equipment generally made to the standards of the day, no leagues or champions, and much more. It is played by gentlemen with a true respect and appreciation for the game and its participants... the way baseball was meant to be played.

The Buckeyes also travel across the Midwest to play other vintage clubs in various historical venues. Most vintage base ball is played by earlier rules, as it was played during the Civil War. This makes Heritage Village one of the very few places in the world where you can see base ball as the famous Cincinnati Red Stockings played it that fateful year of 1869.

We ask you to come out to Heritage Village this spring, summer or fall, to take in a game and experience base ball in 1869.