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Baseball in the Berkshires Exhibit Highlights Black, Women's Teams

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WEST STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Baseball in the Berkshires museum this week opens an exhibit focusing on the history of Black baseball and women's baseball teams in Berkshire County.
 
"Not Your Ordinary Teams: The Unknown Story of Baseball in the Berkshires" opens on Friday, April 19, at the Old Town Hall, 9 Main St.
 
There will be an exhibit preview on Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m.
 
On Friday, the opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. will feature a lecture at 6:30.
 
Larry Moore, the director of Baseball in the Berkshires: A County's Common Bond, will moderate a discussion with guests Bryan House, a former Pittsfield Cub, and Joe Bateman, a former Minor Leaguer.
 
Not Your Ordinary Teams will be open on Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. with a special presentation, "Innovation in Baseball - What's New?."
 
On Sunday, the exhibit again will be open from noon to 4 with a program titled "Tools of the Trade - the History of Baseball Equipment."
 
Not Your Ordinary Teams is a joint project of the Baseball in the Berkshires museum and the West Stockbridge Historical Society.
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Hoffmann Bird Club: Birds and Bartholomew's Cobble

SHEFFIELD, Mass. — Join a naturalist for a guided walk along the Housatonic River looking for spring ephemerals  and migrating warblers at Bartholomew's Cobble.
 
This joint program is offered by the Trustees in partnership with the Hoffmann Bird Club.  
 
Expected birds: mergansers in the river, warblers in the trees, maybe  a glimpse of a bald eagle or black vulture, shore birds on exposed mudflats, and returning tree/rough-winged swallows over Corbin's Neck. Easy to moderate hiking.   
 
Meet at Bartholomew's Cobble, 105 Weatogue Road, Sheffield.
 
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