×
×
homepage logo
LOGIN
SUBSCRIBE

Local Sports Columnists

Every local diamond has now become a field of dreams

Knock-knock. Anybody home? If so, please open the door. Nashua city officials, after some grumbling that had surfaced in the past couple of weeks, finally heard the knock at the door of the Park-Recreation Department controlled baseball and softball fields and are ready to let the youth ...

Time Travel: 1935 Nashua High baseball seeks revenge

JUNE 11, 1935 – “Weather permitting, the High School team faces Lowell High at the South Common diamond at 2:30 this afternoon. “Coach Chesnulevich's team has met but one defeat this season and that came at the hands of the that visits here today. Anxious to avenge that defeat the High ...

Time Travel: Wrobleski pitches Nashua High past Keene

JUNE 10, 1955 – “Pitcher Joe Wrobleski and his Nashua High School teammates shut out Keene at Holman Stadium to throw the Section III standings into a tie between Keene and the Purple. Having a great day the plate for the home team was Johnny Daniels.” JUNE 10, 1960 – From the classic ...

Greenwood: 16 playoff teams? MLB should kill that idea

Typically Major League Baseball needs to be roused from its chronic coma to make even the simplest change in its methods of operation. For instance, consider the designated hitter rule. When the American League adopted it in 1973, the National League scoffed at such an institutional ...

Time Travel: Gondek leads Nashua to baseball tourney win

JUNE 9, 1960 – “Nashua High moved a step closer to the state baseball championship by staging a brilliant clutch performance to nip Portsmouth, 2-1, in 10 innings yesterday afternoon at Athletic Field in Manchester. “The big man in the triumph over the Division II champions was the ...

Time Travel: 1955 schoolboy golf champ ineligible

JUNE 8, 1955 – “Charles Staples, secretary of the New Hampshire Golf Association, announced that Robert Johnson, winner of the state schoolboy golf championship, has been ruled ineligible and matches in the first division would be replayed to decide a new champion. The replay has been ...