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So for the first time in NBL history, we will travel to New York to play a three game series, in this case, with the American Conference first place Catskill Cougars!

Catskill played one year in the Hudson River League in 1903.

Hudson River League History

In 1903, one of the more prominent citizens of Poughkeepsie, New York, was William A. McCabe. McCabe, the Chief of Police and "tenement" investor, had been a professional baseball player with the 1886 Poughkeepsie team in the old Hudson River League, primarily at second base, and had sponsored semi-professional teams in Poughkeepsie since the mid-1890's. McCabe had been acquainted with J. H. Farrell, President of the New York State League and Secretary of the National Association, for many years. In mid-March, McCabe and Farrell called a meeting "for the purpose of forming a league."
Working closely with these men was Henry D. Ramsey, a long-time minor league player and manager, who had been retained by the Kingston stock company as its manager for 1903. On March25 and again on April 1, meetings were held which resulted in forming the Hudson River Baseball League for 1903. Franchises were taken up by Ossining, Newburgh, Hudson and Saugerties, as well as Kingston and Poughkeepsie. Elected President was McCabe, Secretary was Ramsay, and Treasurer was Col. H. D. Claflin of Saugerties. Application was made to the National Association for the Class C classification; admission was received on May 5.

As the season progressed, dissatisfaction with the umpiring mounted. In spite of frequent levying of $5 fines on rowdy players, umpires were under such pressure that all the original umpires had resigned by June 21. At a league meeting held June 21, McCabe and Ramsay resigned their league offices and C. S. Harvey, who resigned that day as umpire, was elected President. McCabe's letter of resignation, quoted in the Poughkeepsie Eagle, spoke to the criticisms of the umpires-by players, management and newspapers-and his reluctance to serve longer. In fact, the Newburgh paper had taken to calling McCabe by the cognomen "Bad Bill," because of his managerial protests to the umpires. Ramsay, at Kingston, and Evans, at Ossining/Catskill, were also highlighted as bad actors, while even the Eagle characterized the Hudson aggregation as "gentlemen."

The 1903 Hudson River League season is remarkable for the playing of the first known mid-season All-Star game. On August 17, the stars, called the All-Leaguers, defeated Poughkeepsie by a score of 7 to 0 before a capacity crowd. Demonstrating Kingston's dominance in the league, five of the stars were from the Kingston Colonials, with one each from Catskill, Peekskill, Hudson and Saugerties. The Newburgh Hillsides were unrepresented.


Game 1 - The Aces jumped all over starter Justin Carlson, and Mark Davis pitched a complete game, giving up only one run, in a 7-1 rout! Second baseman Marcelino Trevino had three hits!






Game 2 - Once again the Aces bats were red hot, as we pounded out ten hits enroute to a 7-3 win. The game was tied until the 8th, when the Aces scored four runs! Denny White got his third straight win, and is now at 3-3.



Game 3 -Unfortunately, we couldn't get the sweep, as the Cougars beat us 4-3. We were down 4-0 until the 8th, when the Aces scored three runs, but couldn't get the tying run across the plate! But despite this loss, we were happy to take two of three, and now headed to Elmira, with a three game series with the Colonels!

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