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Kennett Grey Sox 

The Kennett Square Grey Sox baseball team was one of several all-black community teams that played across the nation during the first half of last century.  They were an organization that pulled the black community together during those years. 

 

Kennett Baseball 
The Mohicans
July 24, 1875 marks the date that the Mohican Baseball Team was organized. Eleven years later, the team officially begame an ameteur ball club and became one of the pre-eminent amateur clubs in the state.  Players included Mike Grady, Theodore "Ted" Pennock and Ted's son, Herb, who went on to professional baseball fame.
  
The Mohican Base Ball Club of Kennett Square plays by 1860's rules and wears uniforms and uses equipment of that era. 


or for information on games or helping the team email: MohicanBBC@gmail.com
2020 Mohican Base Ball Game Schedule
will be posted in the spring



Mohican Home Field
1804 Newark Road 
Kennett Square PA 19348
Herb Pennock, standing, second from right

"Thus it occurred that a party of gentlemen formed an organization, combining together health, recreation, and social enjoyment, which was the nucleus of the now great American game of Base Ball so popular in all parts of the United States, than which there is none more manly or more health-giving."  - The Book of American Pastimes by Charles A. Peverelly