A Silly Sausage-uation!
Bay City vs. Mt. Clemens Howell History Days May 17, 2009 A Silly Sausage-uation! Bay City 5, Mt. Clemens 0 Beautiful weather in the humble burgh of Howell, Michigan accompanied the advent of yet another Independents base ball season. The striped hosed gentlemen would be accompanied on the lawn by the Regular Base Ball Club of Mt. Clemens, Michigan. As has become the custom in these matches a coin toss determined the order of the striking, and the Bay Citys as tradition would follow, won the toss and took to striking. Another Bay City tradition has been scoring early in contests thanks to the mercurial base running of one Sean “Tanner” LeRoux, and today’s match would be no different. Mr. LeRoux promptly struck a fine daisy cutter to the third base tender, but by making use of his speed Tanner promptly made his first. He would move to second on a bound catch made off the bat of Butterfly Beceril, and would be brought home to tally thanks to a fine strike to the long field by Buttons McInerney. There would be no more tallies in the innings and the score would stand at Bay City 1, and Mt. Clemens 0. The Bay City fieldsmen would whitewash the Regulars for the entire contest, but it yet remained a rather tight scratch with Mt. Clemens threatening to tally for several innings. It was not until Dean “Sawmill” Koch tallied in the fifth innings on a bound out taken from the bat of Captain Johnson that the Independents put a little distance between themselves and their opponents. Buttons McInerney would later tally in the seventh innings to add another run to the total for Bay City, and an eighth innings parade around the pillows would plate three more in the persons of Mr. Koch, Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Decuf. The main instigator of the kick-up in the eighth innings was Mr. Decuf who drove a howitzer deep into the long field where a vendor who was selling his sausage wares to the spectators picked up the sphere to examine it as if it had fallen from the heavens itself. By the time the ball was extracted from the sausage man’s hands two runners had tallied and Mr. Decuf had easily made his second. No further scoring would follow in the contest and the match would end with free ice cream for all, and a 5-0 match safely in the pockets of the Bay City nine. These two clubs will meet again on the greenery of Carroll Park on August 22nd.
