Three new names will be added to the Sports Legends of Holman Hall of Fame Plaque, shown in 2020, in the annual July 4 Lions Club Tradition: Mickey Gasper, Nick Caggiano and Tom King. (Telegraph file photo)

NASHUA – The plaque just inside the Holman Stadium gates for the Nashua Lions Club Holman Sports Legends Hall of Fame will have three new names inscribed on it this summer.

Former Nashua Silver Knight and current Boston Red Sox player Mickey Gasper, former longtime Nashua Park-Rec Superintendent Nick Caggiano, and current longtime Nashua Telegraph sportswriter Tom King will be this year’s inductees on July 4.

Gasper, who was a standout at Merrimack High School and Bryant College, was the 2016 Futures Collegiate League Player of the Year, helping to lead the Knights to the FCBL championship. He was mainly a first baseman and DH and tore the cover off the ball, hitting .421 with nine homers, 21 doubles, and 42 RBIs. The average and doubles were league records.

He went on to bigger and better things, drafted by the Yankees in 2018 and eventually ending up with the Red Sox, then the Twins,and now he’s back with the Red Sox seeing regular time lately in interim manager Chad Tracy’s lineup at catcher, DH or first base. He most likely will not be at the induction, held annually prior to the city’s July 4 fireworks show, as the Red Sox are at the Los Angeles Angels that night. It’s possible he’ll be inducted prior to a Silver Knights game on a Red Sox off day.

Caggiano served the city of Nashua for 20 years and as Park-Recreation Superintendent helped add more improvements to Holman Stadium, working with both the Nashua Pride professional baseball team and the Nashua Silver Knights, as well as the youth leagues and Nashua North, South and Bishop Guertin High Schools. The scoreboard/video board were put in under his watch, as well as work on other field enhancements around the city. He retired in September of 2020 and went on to become the facilities director of Southern New Hampshire University.

King has been with The Telegraph since March of 1986, and at Holman has covered numerous high school, professional and summer collegiate baseball games as well as high school football until that sport was moved to Stellos Stadium, built in 2001.

He covered the departure of the Double A Pirates from Nashua, the decade-plus-long run of the Nashua Pride, as well as two ill-fated independent league teams, the Nashua Hawks (1995-96) and American Defenders of New Hampshire (2009). He has covered the Silver Knights since their inception in 2011. King has also broadcast numerous games at Holman over the years as the high school play-by-play man for WSMN-Radio, TV-13 and most recently for nearly the last two decades at Nashua ETV as the color man alongside play-by-play broadcaster John Collins.