South Shore Baseball Championship 1888
In 1888, Freeport's baseball team won the championship! Years later, many of the players on this team took a very active roll in the political life in the Village of Freeport and Nassau County. These players included:
Hiram R. Smith (left field) – Village of Freeport Trustee (1904-1906),
Village Mayor (1906), and Presiding Supervisor of the Town of Hempstead
Sidney S. Smith (center field) – worked for the newspaper
South Side Observer (later the Nassau Daily Review-Star)
Samuel R. Smith (right field) – President of the Bank of
Manhattan, and President of the Freeport Board of Education
Henry Rider (shortstop) – School Tax Collector
Elmer Raynor (third base) – Lieutenant of the Freeport
Police Department
Charles S. Powell (catcher)– Freeport Postmaster
George Weyant (pitcher) - bayman
Source: Archives of the Freeport Historical Society (Clinton Metz files)
