Famous baseball game by US sailors recreated in Cork

A baseball game which took place in Cork last night recreated a famous one held exactly 100 years ago by the US Navy who had arrived in the region as the vanguard for their country’s entry into the First World War.

The game, organised by UCC, took place at the Cork County Cricket Club grounds in the Mardyke.

A team of visiting US students, who are currently attending a summer camp at UCC, along with expats took on the ‘Cork Rebel Alliance’ to recreate a game which was played at exactly the same location as the one put on by crews from two US warships which were part of the American fleet that arrived in Cork harbour a century ago.