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"Boston's Baseball Emergence: A BosCom TV Special Series"

Written and Narrated by Philip Wallace

Animated by Synthsational Art and Design

Cue: Fallout Intro Music w/Vault Boy Baseball Image - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UYb..._channel=Ranga
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Welcome to tonight's feature on "Boston's Baseball Emergence: A BosCom TV Special Series." I am your host Philip Wallace. Tonight we are looking at the history of baseball among the Commonwealth's youth. But first, let us start at the beginning.

Nate Howard is considered to be the Godfather of Baseball around the Commonwealth. The kids' game of sticks and balls and nets and plates, baseball has a history long before our time here on the planet. In a time when America was still innocent, or at least lacking in uranium fever, baseball was called America's pastime and featured greats who lived on in the hearts and minds of society right up until when the bombs fell in 2077.

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In 2287, a miracle happened. The "Man Out of Time," the "Sole Survivor," Nate Howard emerged from the "icebox" that was Vault 111 and began a quest in pursuit of a son, but more importantly, a legacy. He freed the Commonwealth and emerged as the hero, the champion, Father, the General, Champion of the Synths and the Settlements, and the balance of the Brotherhood of Steel. He fought factions and abominations in these grand wastes.

By 2288, there were pockets of safe zones, places that were settled and secured throughout the wastes. While the number of children in the area was relatively low, there were high birthrate areas and more and more families began moving to the Boston Commonwealth among reports that there was a hero saving the Commonwealth from itself.

In fact, in 2288, the first of the youth teams started to develop with two organized teams, the North Charles Bank Goonies and the South Charles Bank Moonies, playing regular games against each other. Though the teams were organized, the games usually were not, with different rules applied on the open fields that made up their "parks." The bases and home plate were actually dinner plates. They had a number of collected balls, swatters, and gloves, but they were often in disrepair. The fields themselves were littered with debris. But there was a game being played, and that felt a lot better than just toil and worry.

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Starting in 2291, a Mysterious Stranger made his way to the Commonwealth. By that time, the place was free of all "war" and the Stranger and Nate went on a daily teleportation mission to teach the fundamentals of the game and make promises of a league to come where players would be paid in caps to play. That helped to start a traveling baseball circuit, some youth-based and some for all ages. Teams like the Boylston Club Boys, the Quannapowitt Mud Hoppers, the Malden Middlemen, the Postal Square BC, the Bunker Hill Caravans, the Hangman's Alley Players, the Hardware Town Scrappers, and the DC Travelin' Traders put on shows for audiences thirsting for entertainment.

While that was happening, the youth league was becoming more organized into a full Boston Youth League. By 2292, the "Original 10" were playing full seasons against each other. In addition to the Goonies and Moonies from the Charles, there were eight other teams playing. Teams changed names in time, but now they are known in no particular order as the Pleasant Minigunners, the Boston Common Baby Bellies, the Beerthirty Sippers, the Thompson Heights Earthlings, the Green Future Sea Urchins, the Circle Jerks, the Boston Harbor Harborfellows, and the Diamond City Newsboys. Each team had a distinct history and style that gave them an appeal that both kids and adults found attractive. With the surge in population centers, it was only a matter of time before the fragments of Boston and areas north of the river came together.

With the youth league, which we now know as the Boston Youth Development League, Nate Howard also had a gathering of baseball talent for his dream structure for the Commonwealth Baseball Organization. He started collecting people to watch and analyze each player, making what he called a "Scouting Report" that would lead to a full intelligence report on players from baseball skills, life skills, and even survival skills. These reports helped Nate and the CBO Commission build a list that would lead to the first-ever CBO draft in 2296. While some of the players in the league came from places abroad or from the traveling teams, most of the players are alumni of the BYDL.

By 2294, Baseball Fever was in full effect with players spending hours per day training, studying, and playing. Teams were now playing the game as it was meant to be played, and some of the quirks, like the Newsboys all wearing newsboys caps instead of baseball caps, started to change into fully donned uniforms and equipment. Small businesses cropped up devoted entirely to the industry of baseball. Of course, the most prominent of all businesses related to Baseball Fever was Diamond City's Moe Cronin who sponsored the youth league and produced baseball bats through his Swatters, Inc., business.

This will conclude Part 1 of our History of the Boston Youth Development League here on BosCom TV. Tune in for Part 2 when we break down the Charles Bank rivalry and introduce you to Nate Howard's original plans for the Boston youth.


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Cue: CBO highlights from BosCom TV