Freeville-Dryden Inter-County Baseball Team

The term "amateur" means "one who engages in a pursuit...or a sport as a pastime rather than as a profession." The word comes from French, meaning "one who loves," and since the earliest days of baseball, there have been groups of players who don't play for money, but play for the love of the game. In central New York during the middle years of the 20th century, one such group was the Inter-County Baseball League. Teams from all around Tompkins County as well as surrounding towns such as Richford in Tioga County and Lodi in Seneca County competed enthusiastically from the early 1930s until after World War II. The Freeville team was sponsored by the local Knights of Pythias and were known as the Knights, or the K of P’s, or the Kapees, and later just as the Freeville-Dryden team. They were one of the best amateur teams of central New York.

Just west of 193 Fall Creek Road, Freeville