Off the Beaten Basepaths #4: Rebel Park in New Market, VA

July 8, 2012 by Austin Gisriel · Leave a Comment

Few ballparks in America offer an old-fashioned ambiance as does Rebel Park in New Market, Virginia. Coupled with its spectacular view of Massanutten Mountain, Rebel Park might be the most scenic baseball site in the Eastern United States. It is home to the New Market Rebels of the Valley Baseball League, a wooden bat, summer, […]

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Baseball Passion in Small Town America

May 19, 2011 by Austin Gisriel · Leave a Comment

We sometimes forget in this ESPN Age the great passion that baseball once inspired on the most local of levels. Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley has had a long love for baseball and there are two towns, some 20 miles or so apart that are perfect examples. New Market, which saw the last Confederate victory in the […]

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