Around 1890, Long Eddy formed its first organized baseball team and played neighboring towns including Acidalia, Basket, East Branch, Roscoe, Hankins, Callicoon, and bitter rival Fishes Eddy. Games were played at the Long Eddy school, now Dedeco. The pictured team included Milton Armstrong, Charles Clark, Jerry Ryan, Joseph Lanahan, Charles Gould, Levi "Putt" Knapp, Harley Misner, Morgan McKoon, Eddie Kenney, Clarence Armstrong, and William Gordon. Morgan McKoon recalled that each boy wore homemade knee pants of dark gray cotton flannel with bright red tape down the outer seams and black stockings borrowed from his mother or sister. The team made its own balls from rubber and white cord, saved pennies to order a ball for $1.25 and a mask for 75 cents from Spaulding's, and used crude bats made from hoe handles, tree branches, or barrel staves, while his catcher's mitt was fashioned from a sweat pad from a work harness. McKoon also remembered that Charlie Peake could throw an out-curve and an out-drop, and that when Long Eddy challenged boys from Basket, Peake's curves had them swinging wildly and Long Eddy won.