Lemont Quarrymen in the News
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Vintage Baseball Field Of Dream
Vintage Baseball Field Of Dream blog article by our own Ed “Cowboy” Novick, May 24, 2022.
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Naperville Sun - June 7, 2019
The Quarrymen were featured in an article in the Naperville Sun about Naper Settlement’s Hometown Picnic in 2019.
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Heaven…Indeed
Lemont Area Historical Society newsletter article by Dan “Chicken Legs” Smaczny from July 17, 2018 about the team playing at the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Iowa.
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![Lemont Patch article “Vintage Baseball Team Kicks Off Summer Season Sunday,” June 21, 2012.]()
Lemont Patch - June 21, 2012
Lemont Patch article “Vintage Baseball Team Kicks Off Summer Season Sunday,” June 21, 2012.
Hometown Picnic at Naper Settlement, June 13, 2022
Old School Baseball
The main event of the day was vintage bare-knuckle baseball, as the Lemont Quarrymen took on the McLean County Prairie Chickens.
"1858 rules from the pre-Civil War era, so we're doing a living history presentation of what baseball would've been like in that time," said Quarrymen member Michael Ciurej. "We've played here for I think at least six or seven years. I've been playing there for as long I’ve been playing, for seventeen years with those guys."
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Naper Settlement's Hometown Picnic 2015
The annual tradition gave folks a chance to experience the days of the 19th and early 20th centuries all while enjoying a historic view of the "Grand Old Game" of baseball with the Lemont Quarrymen taking on the Deep River Grinders. "I'm not a huge baseball fan but it was actually really cool to see the old rules and stuff like that it was very unexpected and fun," said Hannah Jurik, picnic attendee.
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