​DANVILLE — Shawn Rife was hooked on base ball when he saw his dad and uncle play when he was young.As he grew up, Rife — who is known as Ripper for the Vermilion Voles base ball team — has seen it where his brother, Dylan — Known as Big Dog and daughter Scarlet — known as Arrowhead — is playing with him.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“My father (Keith Rife, known as Ice Wagon) joined the team two or three years in its existence,” Rife said. “Being the typical dad, he didn’t want me sitting on the weekends playing video games, so he drug me out to join.”In the last 16 years, Ripper has been involved with the team and even when he had breaks away, he would come back.“My father got my uncle to play and a couple of my other uncles did some one-off games and it was always nice to bring your family in and get involved,” Ripper said. “Our sister was named Half-pint because she was the shortest of the three of us. It was a family affair to come out and play baseball together.”In the last three years, Arrowhead decided to make base ball her activity over playing prep sports.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“I was a kid, and he would take me and my brother and it just looked so fun,” Arrowhead said. “One week, they were short of players and I volunteered. They let me play and I have been part of the team every since.“I think that sometimes they go easy on me, but aside from that, it is fun for me. I play if for fun and it is very enjoyable. It is a little community and it is very fun.”Arrowhead was also able to bring her friend, Lily Smith, into the mix. After watching some games, Smith — nicknamed Flowerpot — wanted to be part of the team.I dragged her into it. I go to school and I enjoy me time here and somehow I convinced her to watch a game and she was like “Could I play next time?’ and we let her play and she enjoys it and it is very fun.”AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe Voles play base ball with rules that were set back in 1858.“No gloves in the field, the pitcher throws underhanded and balls caught on the first bound is an out,” Ripper said. “Fair and foul is not modern at all, it is where the ball hits the ground first. If a ball is hit on home plate and goes into the benches and the weeds, it is a fair ball because it hit fair first. In 1880, the rules of baseball came in with the overhand pitching and a glove for extra padding.“It was a gentleman’s game with the farmers coming together to have fun and compete with one another and it is for the love of the game, sportsmanship and comradery.”It was the brotherhood that brought Jack Doan in. Doan, known as Scrambler, joined the team a few years ago.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“Playing with the Voles team is a brotherhood and a sisterhood and with the other teams, it makes it more fun because it is a gentleman’s and a gentlewoman’s game,” Scrambler said. “The competitiveness is there but there i