The days after the season ends, the weather is suddenly grayer and bleaker than it was not too long ago — or, if you’re in an area beset by Sandy, windier, rainier, snowier, and hopefully not beset by power outages. To lighten matters, here is a quartet of littler-known baseball stories. Were you aware, for […]
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Holman Stadium turns 75
Here’s your little piece of history for the day: Holman Stadium, where Don Newcombe and Roy Campanella broke the minor-league color line with the Nashua Dodgers, is now 75 years old. Tom King has a nice look back at the historic facility, now home to the Nashua Silver Knights (summer collegiate; FCBL). King dwells on […]