Cronin Gives Park League Prizes

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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. Read more

Bat Boy In Hospital After Accident; Javeli Manager’s Act Saves Life

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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. Read more

Park Loop Players Go To Bat For Injured Little Leaguer

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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. Read more

Pitcher-Happy Orioles Park League Surprises

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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. Read more

Boston Park League Opens Under The Lights

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The Boston Park League, the oldest after supper baseball league in the country, opens its 50th season Monday night with four floodlight games (8:15), and that is going to be this year’s pattern – floodlight ball. Read more

Lights Brighten Park League Gate

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The 39th Park League baseball season goes into its second week Monday night with all hands reporting thanks to the increase of floodlighted fields. Games are being held several nights each week at Dorchester Town Field and, for the first time, at Fallon Field, Roslindale. Read more

Sox Draft Wakefield’s Norton, Move Kenney To Director Post

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Bill Norton of Wakefield, a left-handed first basemen of the Bob Wolfe Club in the Boston Park League, was the first-round choice of the Red Sox during the regular phase of the major league baseball free agent draft in New York yesterday. Read more

No Lack Of Brain Power On Park League Bombers

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The Johnson Bombers may not be burning up the Park League, but on College Bowl they’re a match for anybody. Many people think of the average Park League player as a big, tobacco-chewing mill worker who brawles in the nearest bar after a game. But the Johnson Club hardly fits such a description. Read more

Ex-Major Leaguer Hoeft Hurling In Park League

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After 15 years of major league pitching, lefthanded hurler Billy Hoeft is breaking into sandlot baseball. Read more

St. John’s 5-Hitter Gives Connolly Title

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The Herb Connolly Club successfully defended its Park League title and for the second straight year swept the playoffs, as it downed the Carlevale Braves, 6 to 0, behind the five-hit pitching of Bob St. John at Kelley Field, Friday night. Read more