Baseball is indeed America's favorite pastime and the sport has had a long and storied history in Blanchardville as well. Over the past century the game has been played in local hay fields, cow pastures, church and school yards and just about everywhere a diamond could be laid out.

In Blanchardville, the game has been played between boys and girls, men and women. Over the years, Blanchardville's "farmers" teams and Home Talent league teams have battled with other community squads throughout southern Wisconsin.

Literally thousands of players have participated on local teams, so it is impossible to mention them all. In the days when there were fewer forms of entertainment, (no television, little radio) local teams often attracted huge crowds to their games in the early days of baseball. According to Frank Mason, one of the "old timers", over 2,000 fans came to see the Blanchardville play the Chicago Gilkerson Union Giants in 1920. The game was played in what was called "Baker's Bottom".

Blanchardville had excellent teams during the 1940's. They were in the Home Talent League play-offs in both 1941 and 1948. Many players and fans of the era remember a 1941 play-off loss to Madison's 3-F Laundry which drew around 3000 people to McKellar Park.Another note worthy game of the era was a 21 inning contest with Shullsburg which featured Blanchardville hurler Lefty Andrews striking out 32 Shullsburg batters.

During the 1940's and 50's the "farmers" teams had great success with such players as Earling, Donald, Glenn and Bill Lageson with Cliff Rear as the pitcher.

Blanchardville has had three pitchers who have thrown no-hitters in the league. Jim Moreland in 1969 against Mineral Point, Gary McKenzie 1986 at Shullsburg and "Butch" McKeon in Lena, Illinois in 1989. All of them were right handers.

Inaddition to great pitching, there have also been some excellent hitters. Since batting statistics were first kept in 1937, several Blanchardville players have been high in season batting averages. The most successful Bullet hitter has been Gary McKenzie who has won four sectional batting titles and led the entire league in hitting in 1979 with a .500 batting average. Some other Bullets who have won either Night League or Sunday League sectional titles include Mark Hardyman, Gary Sutter and Steve Narveson.

There have been many devoted players, managers, and fans involved in Blanchardville baseball over the past century and with community support, hopefully, the cry of "play ball" will continue at McKellar Park for another century.