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Original Silver Knights owner Weber heads FCBL Fame inductees

By Tom King - Staff Writer | Sep 16, 2020

Telegraph file photo by TOM KING Former Nashua Silver Knights owner Drew Weber is one of a few connected with the team that will be inducted into the new FCBL Hall of Fame next month.

NASHUA – Fame is calling several who had an impact in the early days of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League – including a few with the Nashua Silver Knights.

The FCBL has announced its inaugural inductees into its newly formed Hall of Fame. Locally, the group of 13 includes original and now former Nashua Silver Knights owner Drew Weber, former Knights vice presidents Tim Bawmann and Jon Goode, and former Nashua first baseman Chris Shaw.

The ceremony will be held at a dinner following the first ever FCBL Golf Tournament on Friday, Oct. 9 at Cyprian Keyes Golf Club in Boylston, Mass. at 6:30 p.m.

“Thanks for the wonderful recognition,” Bawmann posted on social media. “We started the league because others didn’t want us in the NECBL and for kids in New England to have a place to play each summer. Proud to be part of this from the beginning.”

Indeed, Weber, Bawmann, Goode, and former FCBL commissioner Chris Hall are part of the inductee group called the league’s “Founding Fathers”. The others are Dave Hoyt, owner of the now dormant Seacoast Mavericks, Chris Carminucci and Darren Harrison-Pannis of both the Torrington Titans and Martha’s Vineyard Sharks, and Van Schley of the Brockton Rox.

Weber, Goode and Bawmann all worked to create the Silver Knights and form the league. Weber also owned the professional Lowell Spinners, and Goode and Bawmann ran both clubs day-to-day. Goode was the Knights VP of Marketing and Promotions, as he was in Lowell.

Weber has since retired to Arizona after first selling the Spinners a few years ago, but then the Silver Knights in March of 2019 to Worcester businessman and Bravehearts owner John Creedon, Jr. Bawmann is now the president of the NBA G-League’s Fort Wayne (Ind.) Mad Ants, while Goode owns and operates a sports memorabilia business in Nashua.

Together the three created one of the more popular franchises to ever play at Holman Stadium. Hall, the former Nashua Pride general manager, stepped down as FCBL Commissioner two years ago but still works with the league as a consultant.

Also being inducted are the late Adam Keenan and Bill Terlecky. Keenan was a player on the first ever Mavericks team who died suddenly days before the start of the league’s inaugural 2011 season due to an undiagnosed rare heart condition. His legacy has lived on with league sponsored Sportsmanship and Scholarship Awards.

Terlecky was the North Shore Navigators general manager from 2012-19, completing a 41-year career in baseball before losing his long battle with cancer last October. He was a popular league figure and was said to have mentored many in the Futures League.

Three former FCBL players who have since appeared in the Major Leagues round out the inductees – former Torrington pitcher Tylor Bashlor, Shaw, and former Worcester Braveheart Aaron Civale.

Shaw, who was one of the first to enter the league under the incoming freshman rule, is a member of the San Francisco Giants organization and has seen some time in the majors as an outfielder. The Lexington, Mass. native was a power hitting first baseman who helped the Knights to their second of five FCBL titles in 2012.

Bashlor has spent parts of the last three seasons in the majors, his first appearance a couple of years ago with the New York Mets. Civale pitches for Worceser in 2014 and made his MLB debut with Cleveland a year ago.

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