Events
Frontier Baseball in Nevada with Bob Nylen
May 20 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Free
Bob Nylen, retired curator with the Nevada State Museum, has researched and written about the fascinating history of frontier baseball in Nevada. His talk will highlight how the sport spread across Nevada in the late 1860s, capturing the excitement of Nevadans. He will cover how teams were formed, how games were played, and why the scores were so high. Nylen also will tell how he organized and umpired a reenactment game between Carson City and Virginia City teams in 1992, using rules from 1869. Bob, born and raised in the Chicago area, is a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan.
