The sandlot baseball perennial from Brighton will have a ball club in the Boston Park Department League this season, as usual. His new sponsor is the Massachusetts Envelope Co., which has fielded a team in the Suburban Twi League for several years.
Bob St. John pitched the Supreme Saints to their second straight Boston Park League baseball championship Thursday night, 3 to 1, over the Connolly Club at Kelly Field, Hyde Park, before 5000.
Bob DeFelice hit a dramatic two-run homer with two out in the seventh and final inning to give the Connolly Club a 4 to 4 tie with the Supreme Saints Tuesday at Dorchester Town Field, keeping their Park League championship series deadlocked at three games apiece.
Back in the mid-’20s, heyday of sandlot baseball, Will Jackman and Burlin White were excelling for the barnstorming “Philadelphia” Colored Giants (most of whom came from Boston’s South End). So was Jesse Brown, the Satchel Paige of Sandlots.
Umpiring as therapy? Danny Roberts of Milton, a prominent Boston businessman who has worked 60 games, insists it’s so, at least as far as he’s concerned. He used to do 100 games, before he suffered a mild heart attack.
Move over, Casey Stengel. You think you have trouble with your New York Mets exhibiting the fine art of losing baseball games. Well, tell the boys not to worry, for they have no monopoly on the practices. Leave that to the Dodgers of the Boston Park League.
The Park Department baseball league opens its 33d season Monday night, and for the 33d time a mobile baseball encyclopedia entitled Bob Cusick will be in on the operation.
Young semi-pro players who think they’re destined for the big leagues might study the case of Tom McDonald–then reappraise their chances.
Chips’ Grid Boss Shakes Up Park Baseball Loop. Charlestown and the Chippewas are long-time Park League football rivals. Gr-rrr. Wait till next year! Chippewas’ “angel,” Frank Passanesi, has half of the 1961 championship Charlestown team playing for his new Park League ball club.
The oldest twilight baseball league in the country will open its 32d season Monday night when the Boston Park League lifts the lid on its 12-week campaign on four fronts.
