Conley Takes Park Crown
Jim Henderson’s three-run homer in the fourth was the decisive blow that gave the Conley Club a 7-4 victory over the Supreme Three Saints and the Park League’s baseball championship last night at Cleveland Circle.
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Park Dept. Clears Way For Park League Baseball
There will be Boston Park League baseball after all in 1976. After first moving to eliminate the oldest amateur baseball league in the nation, the Park Dept. decided to give it a go.
Park League Baseball In Jeopardy
It has distinction. But now it faces extinction. The Boston Park League’s senior baseball league, oldest amateur baseball league in the nation, is nearly dead at 45.
Grade A Baseball In Grade B Setting
She is Boston’s aging grande dame. Though a lot of people pay her lip service, nobody goes to visit her anymore. The Boston Park League struggles along, playing its games before a dwindling gathering of wives, girlfriends and elderly diehards, many of whom have been watching Park League contests for 40 years.
Mass. Envelope Takes Park Flag
Mass. Envelope owns the Park League’s regular season baseball championship after its 11-0 romp over the Royals at Casey Field last night, but general manager John Kelliher termed it “only the beginning.”
CBS To Film Park Opener
The Park League will introduce the designated hitter to sandlot baseball this season, a milestone that will bring a CBS TV crew from New York to record the histrionics.
Cronin Gives Park League Prizes
A bonus for baseball fans will be offered at Dick Casey (Town) Field, Dorchester, Monday night when Joe Cronin, president of the American League, will present three awards, They include the MVP, $1000 to the team that scored the most runs, and a trophy for the club that recorded the fewest errors this season in the Boston Park League.
Bat Boy In Hospital After Accident; Javeli Manager’s Act Saves Life
The Woolf Club is riding high in the Boston Park League, but things aren’t quite the same for the league leaders. They lost their 11-year-old batboy Jimmy Lydon for the season the other night when he was accidentally hit in the head by a baseball bat being swung by the on deck hitter.
Park Loop Players Go To Bat For Injured Little Leaguer
Players in the Park League baseball senior division have responded “admirably” to the request for blood for stricken Little Leaguer Bobby Lebel, according to league director Bob Cusick, and the drive is spreading into the Twilight Division as well.
Pitcher-Happy Orioles Park League Surprises
When Dick Holmstrom was a lad he was impressed by the old Connie Mack dictum about pitching being 85 percent of baseball. Holmstrom never has forgotten it and now he has nine pitchers on the roster of his Park League entry, the Lecemere Orioles.
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