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Joe Namath talks with head linesman Jim Mello before Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium. (c) Ed Mulholland, USA Today Sports.

From BPL All-Star to Super Bowl XLVIII

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Neither Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders, nor any of the other 65 professional athletes who played Major League Baseball or in the National Football League ever achieved such a feat. But Jimmy Mello of the Boston Park League did. This winter, Jim Mello, 56, became the first player in history to hit a home run out of Fenway Park and participate in a Super Bowl. (Until another historian proves otherwise!) Read more

All-Star Game hero and Mass Envelope Manager Jim Mello receives a congratulatory hug from his mother following his explosive game-winning home run in the last of the eight at Fenway Park.

The Boston Park League

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After 65 years of continuous existence, the Boston Park League has been many things to many people. The only thing that it remains for all those who have played and the present players, is family.

Read The Boston Park League, by John Hinds, as appearing in Boston Red Sox Scorecard Magazine.