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CARLSON CLUB WINS 2010 LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP
With the Carlson Club leading the championship series 3 games to 1 over the Palmer Club, game 5 was played at Stewart Diamond at Fallon Field on a beautiful night for baseball, after 4 days of rain. The field was in excellent condition. Veteran Pablo Reyes was starting his 2nd game of the series after winning game 2 for Carlson. Palmer countered with their ace lefthander P.J. Gouthro.
Palmer got on the board 1st as Greg Stack singled in the go a head run in the 2nd. The 1-0 score held up until the bottom of the 6th, when Carlson outflielder Josue Feliciano doubled to deep center to score 2 runs, giving the home team a 1 run lead going into the last inning. J.P. Songin walked to lead off the top of the 7th for Palmer, and was sacrificed to 2nd. Manager Nick Faggas decided to lift his starter Pablo Reyes (6 hits in 6 1/3 innings) for closer Wandy Rosario. Rosario struck out the 1st batter he faced. With 2 outs, pinch hitter Brian Reilly stroked a hard single to left. Songin turned 3rd and headed home as left fielder Willy Rojas unloaded a rocket throw to catcher Danny Montero. Songin was out by 6 feet, game over, and the Carlson Club had their 2nd straight league championship. It was a battle right down to the wire, as the run differential was 2 runs or less in all 5 games played.
Congratulations to general manager Owen Carlson, field manager Nick Faggas, and to all the Carlson players. A tip of the hat to the Palmer Club for battling hard each night, and gave the Carlson Club all they could handle.
PABLO REYES NAMED PLAYOFF MVP
It was announced that Carlson pitcher Pablo Reyes was named the playoff MVP, and will receive the John Kelliher Award at the 28th Annual Alumni Reunion - Hall of Fame Dinner on Friday evening, November 12th, at Lantana's in Randolph, Ma.
An interesting note about Reyes. 23 years ago, Pablo was named to his first Park League All Star Team pitching for the Jamaica Plain Red Sox at the age of 21. He was named the Playoff MVP pitching for ADSL and League MVP in 1989. He was inducted into the BPL Hall of Fame in 1998. Here he is at age 44 doing it all over again. The Palmer players will attest that he not only can mix them up, but can throw gas. An amazing feat! Congratulations Pablo!
The Boston Park League All Stars lost to the Cranberry League All Stars 2-1 in a rain shortened 5 inning game at Campanelli Stadium in Brockton, Ma. on Friday evening, July 16th, 2010.
The Park Leaguers had the tieing run on with one out in the 6th after a single by John McCue, with Coley Lyons at bat, when the rains came. The infield was covered, the game delayed for 1/2 hour, when the decision came down to call the game.
The Park Leaguers outhit the Cranberry League 5-2, getting outstanding pitching, and had the bases loaded in both the 4th & 5th innings, but came away with only 1 run. Manny Sota lined a single to left after a ringing double to right by Adam Wozniak, who scored the only run for the Park Leaguers. Cranberry scored in the 2nd on a double by Nick Devitto, and a single by Nick Cunningham. What turned out to be the winning run came home on a bases loaded base on balls in the bottom of the 5th.
It's unfortunate that 1/2 the squads on both teams didn't get to play. A pretty good crowd was on hand. Max Vigliotti of Stockyard won the pre-game Home Run hitting contest. BPL/Cranberry League Hall of Famers Lou Ditullio & Frank Niles threw out the ceremonial first pitch, and the National Anthem was sung beautifully by Kerrin Clark of Weymouth.
The Boston Park League wished to thank the Cranberry League for hosting the 2010 All Star Game.
General Manager Owen Carlson of the Champion Carlson Club has named Nick Faggas as the new field manager.
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2009 Hall of Fame Dinner Pictures are now posted on HOF Dinner Page.
Towne Club is changing it's name to JM Force.
The following 6 players were inducted into the BPL-HOF on Friday, Nov. 13th, 2009 at Lantana's in Randolph, MA:
1. Greg Digirolamo, infielder, Palmer Club
2. John Hauck, pitcher, Larkin Club
3. Darwin Hernandez, outfielder, Mass. Envelope/Padres
4. Len Johnson, catcher, Crosby Club
5. Ken Pires, outfielder, ADSL
6. Mike Swiecicki, pitcher, Kelley Club
The 2009 All Star Team & Special Award recipients as presented at the 28th Annual Alumni Reunion can be found on the Hall of Fame Dinner link.
Curt Schilling, formally of the Boston Red Sox and a major contributor to the ALS Foundation, was named to receive the Thomas Yawkey Sportsman Award for 2009. President Walt Bentson accepted the award on Curt's behalf.
Jerry Trupiano was once again the Master of Ceremonies for the 28th Annual Alumni Reunion - Hall of Fame Dinner on Friday evening, November 13th, 2009 at Lantana's in Randolph, Ma. This was Jerry's 8th consecutive year as our MC.
Jerry is currently a weekend talk show host for The Sports Hub at 98.5FM, Boston's new home for sports, where you can hear every Patriots & Bruins game. Check out 985thesportshub.com. Congratulations to Jerry on his newest broadcasting assignment.
Election of Officers for 2010 was held on November 19, 2009.
President - Walt Bentson, Commissioner Eddie Miller, 1st Vice President Jim Cody, 2nd Vice President Mike Aiena, Umpire in Chief Walt Bentson, Secretary Treasurer Walt Mortimer, Consultants - Dr. Bob Wilkinson, Tony Langone, Skip Landry, Jeff Toussaint, & Joe Peters.
The Boston Park League will sponsor the 11th Annual Dick Clegg - Howie Stein Memorial Golf Tournament on Monday, August 2nd, 2010, 9:30am, at the Easton Country Club, 265 Purchase St. Easton, Ma. 02375.
This is our 81st consecutive year of amateur baseball in the City of Boston. We would like nothing better than to get a full field of 100 players or more for the event. The league anticipates a brisk response, and suggests you sign up as soon as possible to insure your place. Please return the registration form no later than July 24th, 2010 with your pre-registration fee of $125.00 per player, $500.00 a foursome. We will use a shotgun start, florida style best ball, so that we all finish about the same time. Each team will have 4 players if possible. Singles are welcome. Registration will include green fees, cart, prizes, and a buffet lunch.
We have included a tee/green sponsorship form . This is our major source of fund raising revenue. Please consider sponsoring a hole for the nominal fee of $125.00. If you have a business firm that would be interested in supporting the Park League, we'll get their name out there on the golf course, and list them on our web site (bostonparkleague.org) for the next 12 months. Let's work to make this tournament a success.
Make checks payable to the Boston Park League Baseball, and sent them to Walt Mortimer at the address below. Thanking you in advance for your support, and looking forward to seeing you at the Easton Country Club on August 2nd, 2010.
Walt Mortimer, Secretary Treasurer, BPL
3 Strathmore Circle
Braintree, Ma. 02184
781-843-9134
Please see Golf Tournament page for complete details of this year's Dick Clegg - Howie Stein Memorial Golf Tournament.
A Request to Boston Park League Hall of Fame Members:
The league would like to establish in 2010 an email group listing of all Hall of Fame members who have internet access, which will be kept on file by the Secretary Treasurer. We wish to keep you informed with updated information regarding the league. Just send us an email message, identifying yourself, update contact info if necessary, to bostonparkleague@comcast.net.
The Carlson Club won the 2009 Boston Park League Championship Monday night August 31st, at Stewart Diamond, Fallon Field, Roslindale, taking game 6 by a 2-1 score, and beating the Stockyard 4 games to 2 in a best of 7 series. Manager Rich Figueroa's club played errorless ball, got a superior effort from pitcher Vantroi Medina, and rewarded sponsor Owen Carlson with his first Park League Championship.
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