All-American Day October 27, 2012

Enjoy America's favorite pastime when Hagley hosts the Diamond State Base Ball Club for a nineteenth-century baseball game. In the nineteenth century, baseball was a fast-paced and dramatic game, played without gloves and with some different rules. Seating is informal, so feel free to bring a blanket! Visitors that day can also enjoy classic foods and play nineteenth-century games. If it is a nice day, you can see a steam-powered popcorn popper at work, courtesy of the Marshall Steam Museum at Auburn Heights Preserve. Activities begin at 1 p.m., and the game starts at 2 p.m. Admission is $2 for members, $3 for not-yet members, and free for children under 6. Use Hagley's Buck Road East entrance off Route 100 in Wilmington, Delaware.