Ninety-seven summers in one city
The Boston Park League calls itself the oldest amateur baseball league in the United States, founded in 1929, and invites you to join it on the ballfields as a player, a manager or one of the thousands of spectators who have watched Park League games.
It did not play under lights until 1961. Local newspapers used to call it the Park Loop. In 1973 it introduced the designated hitter to amateur baseball, and CBS television came up from New York to cover it, which tells you what this league's decisions used to mean.
The current champions are TJO Sports, who won in 2025 after the Extra Innings Braves took 2024. The Yawkey Foundation backs it.
Nothing High Cheese does can add to a league like this. What it can do is make ninety-seven years of it searchable rather than sitting in a Hall of Fame page nobody outside Boston finds.
Boston Park League in detail
- Schedules and scores share one section, and neither renders.
- A standings section is kept, and its table does not render.
- Results are kept with the schedule and do not render.
- Two champion clubs named, and no rosters published.
- Statistics open in a separate window, and historical all-stars and records are kept.
- A contact page, an officers page, Facebook, X and email links.
- A prospective player sign-up, and a Find A Player service for managers.
- The league keeps a Field Directions page, which is the right name for it.
- This is the league that brought the designated hitter to amateur baseball in 1973.
- A Latest News section, a blog, and a page of poetry.
- A View Photos section, including the 2022 Hall of Fame Dinner.
- The Yawkey Foundation, and a page called Our Friends.
- TJO Sports in 2025, the Extra Innings Braves in 2024.
- Ted Williams and Mark McGwire hit home runs here. A governor and a mayor pitched against each other.
- A published officers page, and a vice president who has been in the Dark Knight Rises.
- Who to play for and how to be found are both answered. Cost and dates are not.
- Historical records, award winners and all-stars, kept as their own sections.
- Two dated events beyond the season: a Hall of Fame Dinner and a golf tournament.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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