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

Hansen, 18, Ex-Latin School Ace Owns Park Loop’s Hottest Bat

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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

Cited By Governor: Lyons Club Scatback Park Player of Year

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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

Why Fornieles Smiles Again

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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

Saints Defending Title As Park Loop Opens

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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

New ‘Angel’ Sings For Jerry M’Carthy

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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

Saints Capture 2d Park Crown

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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

Defelice HR Delays Park Title Winner

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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

52-Year-Old Playing 1B For Timilty Club

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Back in the mid-’20s, heyday of sandlot baseball, Will Jackman and Burlin White were excelling for the barnstorming “Philadelphia” Colored Giants (most of whom came from Boston’s South End). So was Jesse Brown, the Satchel Paige of Sandlots. Read more

Umpiring ‘Tonic’ To Businessman

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Umpiring as therapy? Danny Roberts of Milton, a prominent Boston businessman who has worked 60 games, insists it’s so, at least as far as he’s concerned. He used to do 100 games, before he suffered a mild heart attack. Read more