Veteran coaches always are talking about the famous ball players they’ve had, but the Park League’s Hal Crosby likes to brag about those who have made good in other fields.
The hardest-working baseball “general manager” in the Boston Park League, Gerry McCarthy, sometimes doesn’t have to lift a finger to improve his team’s position.
Pitcher gives soft shoe treatment. Dick Garibaldi underwent surgery for removal of a growth on the bottom of his foot. Doctors told him he would play no more baseball this season. Mrs. Albert Garibaldi was not so sure: “If Dick can walk, he’ll pitch.”
A baseball game between the Charlestown Hawks, the Boston Park League champions, and the Park League All-Stars will headline Boston Park League Day at Fenway Park for the benefit of the Jimmy Fund.
There will always be a Buccigross in the Boston Park League. For years, Ed Buccigross was one of the top football players in the league. Now comes his younger brother Jim to make a mark in baseball. Jim is the leading hitter in the Park League with an amazing .615 average. He bats clean-up for the Dorchester Royals.
There are only two Yogis in the United States, and we’ve got one of them.” That would be Edward (Yogi) Morad, St. Paul’s first base coach, second-string catcher, assistant manager, and general handy man, in the Boston Park League.
Floodlight baseball makes its debut in the Park League for the first time in its 31-year history at 7:30 tonight at Kelly Field, Hyde Park, when the new Bottomly Club of that section meets the White Club of Brighton.
How Park League Star Shed 60 Pounds. Look to your laurels, Josle Lowman. Charlestown athlete Jim Walles has a weight-shedding formula, which gets results. Take it from a young man who has proudly dropped 60 pounds, from 300, and is still melting.
Arthur Nowell pitched a no hit, no-run game for the Charlestown Cards of the Park League list night, beating the Dorchester Royals, 7 to 0 in six innings at Dorchester Town Field. Walt Mortimer, the former Boston English All-Scholastic and last year farmhand for the San Francisco Giants, hit two home runs, driving in five runs.
Fans turning out at the rate of 4000 to 5500 each game for the current Park Department playoffs between St. Pauls and McCormacks are viewing really interesting baseball.