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Park Leaguers In Jimmy Fund Tilt

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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. Read more

Buccigross Becoming Symbol For Success In Park League

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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. Read more

Their Ace In Hole – Half Of All The Yogis

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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. Read more

Park Loop Floodlight Ball Starts

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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. Read more

Leave The Rest To Lowman

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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. Read more

Nowell Hurls No-Hitter in Park League

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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. Read more

Park League Playoffs Producing Top Baseball

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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. Read more

McCormacks Win On Cunis Homers

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A pair of tremendous home run blows by Boston College sophomore outfielder, Billy Cunis of Ashland, driving in five runs, sparked the rebounding McCormack Club to its first victory over St. Paul’s, 9 to 2, last night at Dorchester’s Towne Field in the third game of the Park League playoffs before 3500 weather-defying fans. Read more

Park League Rivals Laud Benson’s Savvy

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There aren’t as many boys playing ball these days and there aren’t nearly as many people watching them play, but the caliber of baseball in the Boston Park League is just as good as it ever was. Read more

Take A Champ’s (Hartung) Word For It

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Ping Pong Helps Sharpen Baseball Player’s Eye.

If the Park League pitchers start “throwing them up like ping pong balls,” it won’t bother Boston Elks slugger Art Hartung one bit. Good reason–Hartung is also New England ping pong champion. Read more