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
After 15 years of major league pitching, lefthanded hurler Billy Hoeft is breaking into sandlot baseball. Read more
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
The hottest bat in the Boston Park League doesn’t belong to a baseball player who is an ex-minor leaguer. It belongs to a schoolboy who is batting the Frances E. Kelly Club into the league playoffs. His name is Bob Hansen. Read more
He has a “thin man” look out there among all those Park League behemoths, but the Lyons Clubs’ 155-pound Chester Stone is deceptive. He’s just the guy to leave the opposition gasping, “What happened?”
When the undefeated Dorchester team battles the Charlestown Townies this afternoon, Scatback Stone is going to be afforded a special honor – a citation from Gov. Volpe as Park League “player of the year.” Read more
He was a man without a country, without a family, without a job, and with little to hope for. It was not the Mike Fornieles of today, the one who sells Pontiacs with a Desi Arnaz accent and has love for baseball, Boston Park League style. Read more
The Supreme Saints, with a new manager and many changes in playing personnel, will start chasing their third straight Park League baseball crown Monday night when the oldest twilight league in the country opens its 35th season. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
