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Pandemic baseball better than no baseball at Holman

Nashua Silver Knights season ticket holder Ray Smith of Nashua got to the Holman Stadium parking lot before 4 p.m. on Thursday. even though the gates for the team's season opener weren't opening til 4:30. “I'm 100 percent thrilled,” Smith said. “I really think this is great, I really ...

June brought local sports progress, and July looks good too

Here's a few tids and bits as we have wrapped up June and say hello to July. The months keep moving along, and so do local sports, in spite of the pandemic: ---- It's amazing what the warm weather has brought. In May, no activity until baseball minds Tom Walker and Tim Lunn came up with summer ...

Patriot fans are hoping Cam can as the buzz is back

Sunday night New England Patriot fans took the good with the bad. Either way,a lot of buzz. The good, in their minds, was the signing of free agent quarterback Cam Newton. Conveniently lost in most thoughts was the bad, the loss of a third round draft pick for a big oopsie on the part of the ...

Steps forward locally in June, but what will July bring?

Here are a few tids and bits as we begin to wrap up June and say hello to July. The months keep moving along, and so do local sports, in spite of the pandemic: ---- It's amazing what the warm weather has brought. In May, no activity until baseball minds Tom Walker and Tim Lunn came up with ...

King: Somehow, Futures League is ready to roll

They’re back. Yes, in these pandemic-dominated days, we have a Silver lining. The Futures Collegiate Baseball League, including the Nashua Silver Knights, actually pulled it off. On Thursday at 6 p.m., Holman Stadium will actually be the site of a game. Amazing. It certainly wasn’t ...

MLB finally grasps reality … hopefully

We can hope, if not trust, that while Major League Baseball’s owners and players understand that they can announce their intentions to have a season, those intentions are far from guaranteed. The pandemic is more than capable of staring them down. But hope is much more than they had a few ...