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. Read more
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.” Read more
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. Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
