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Bid McPhee Barehanded ball in the Burg

  • Keithsburg Ball Park Keithsburg, IL 61442 (map)

"No, I never use a glove in a game. I have never seen the necessity of wearing one ... True, hot-hit balls do sting a little at the opening of the season, but after you get used to it, there is no trouble on that score."
- Bid McPhee

The home of John "Bid" McPhee is proud to host the first annual Bid McPhee Mush-Ball tournament September 4th! For those of you who don't know, Bid grew up in Keithsburg, IL and played his career without a glove! He did it so well that he was inducted into the MLB Hall of Fame in 2002. Now we're not man enough to play like he did, but we can play with a mush-ball and pretend!


$200 per team or $20 per person. Captains must collect fees and present them before play starts.
Full rules will be posted later in the comments, but for now it will be required to play without a glove and will be much like slow-pitch, but not using "old man rules". There will concessions available and we're hoping for a much bigger surprise to announce as soon as it's confirmed.


All proceeds will go toward the changing of the street name or the ball diamond if that were to fail (let's not let it fail).

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Keithsburg Fire Department Fundraiser