New York Penn League All Star Game plays to a 1-1 tie
On August 19, the Cyclones hosted the 10th annual New York Penn League All Star Game at MCU Park. In operation since 1939, the Penn League is celebrating its 75th anniversary for the longest continuous run of any Single-A minor league.
“The league has come a long way,” stated former minor league catcher Duke Davis of Vestal, New York, who played in 1944 for the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Penn League affiliate, the Olean Oilers. “Back then, we rode from town to town in two station wagons with just 18 players on a team,” said the 92-year fan of the Mets’ Double-A minor league team in Binghamton. “We were given a hammer and nail to hang our clothes in the locker room and we all drank out of a water bucket with a ladle back then.”
With certainly more amenities than the pioneers of the Penn League, the 2014 New York Penn League All Stars were treated to a boat ride banquet around New York harbor the night before the game and a celebrity charity softball game just before their own field appearance.
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