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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 ...

Summer’s here, and so is the local summer game we love

It was a scene hard to imagine as recently as a month or two ago. Fans were seated in groups – family groups, it looked like – on the hill last Friday evening overlooking Harvey Woods Field. The former Daniel Webster College home field serves as a home for three teams in the New Hampshire ...

Time Travel: Nashua’s Gondek leads Dodgers over Portsmouth

JUNE 22, 1960 – “Former Nashua High pitching star Tom Gondek last night pitched and hit the Nashua Dodgers to a 4-3 triumph over the Portsmouth City Club at Holman Stadium. “Gondek scattered eight Portsmouth hits and held the visitors scoreless until the eighth inning and at the same ...

Time Travel: Looking back at Nashua’s baseball roots

JUNE 23, 1965 – Fred Dobens' “Around the Town” column included an old Nashua ballplayer's response to a previous Dobens essay in which he recalled the earliest days of the city's baseball history: “One of Nashua's all-time favorite ballplayers, Leo Gauthier, whose pitching delighted ...

North-Souhegan hockey revolving coaching door must stop

Puck People, we have a problem. It looks like a big one. Let's face it, the Nashua North-Souhegan hockey co-op has been, well, a nightmare. A nightmare for Nashua athletic director Lisa Gingras, a nightmare for any of its coaches, and probably not as fun as it should be for its players and ...