The things that happened on these fields
Ted Williams hit a home run in a Boston Park League exhibition in 1946. Mark McGwire hit one in 1984.
In 1941 Governor Leverett Saltonstall pitched against Mayor Maurice Tobin. Both men have a piece of Boston infrastructure named after them now, the Leverett Connector and the Tobin Bridge, and before that they faced each other in this league.
In 1973 the league brought the designated hitter into amateur baseball, ahead of most of the sport, and it was enough of a story that a New York network sent a crew.
The site keeps historical award winners, historical all-stars, historical records, a Hall of Fame and an In Memoriam section, which is more of its own past than any other league here maintains.
Every season played on High Cheese is kept the same way, so a league starting today has that record in fifty years rather than hoping somebody wrote it down.
Boston Park League in detail
- Founded 1929 and, by its own account, the oldest amateur baseball league in the United States.
- 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.
- 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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