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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

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Welcome to tonight's feature, Part 3 on "Boston's Baseball Emergence: A BosCom TV Special Series." I am your host Philip Wallace. Tonight we are looking at the Original 10, Part 1, and how they started to shape baseball as we know it in the Commonwealth. We featured the “Original 2” last week in the North Charles Bank Goonies and the South Charles Bank Goonies, so we are going to look at how the other eight teams were able to come together to have a somewhat united yet still divided Boston Youth League, now known as the Boston Youth Development League by 2292.

As a reminder, the first 10 clubs, or the “Original 10,” have changed somewhat over time. They are now known in no particular order as the previously mentioned Goonies and Moonies, the Diamond City Newsboys, the Beerthirty Sippers, the Circle Jerks, the Pleasant Minigunners, the Green Future Sea Urchins, the Boston Common Baby Bellies, the Boston Harbor Harborfellows, and the Thompson Heights Earthlings.

This week we are going to concentrate on some of the teams that followed the Goonies and Moonies, beginning the firsts of the Boston Youth Series. Those four teams are the Baby Bellies, then known as only Boston Common; the Circle Jerks of Fairline Hill Estates; the Earthlings of Roxbury; and the Harborfellows, known only as Boston Harbor or the Boston Harbor Club near Bunker Hill.

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After the start of organized baseball in 2288, there were a number of baseball games popping up all over the Commonwealth. Most were all ages games with iffy rules and no time limits or organized innings. Players would jump in and out as they needed breaks or to go on their work shifts. One game in the free Concord area in 2289 supposedly ran for 13 straight days.

Nate Howard made it a point to collect baseball equipment on his raids of the wild wastes. Those collected pieces of equipment were distributed to different of Howard’s settlements at first, but he did help in getting more equipment to settlements not under his watch. One of those teams that started using a free Boston Common was the team we now know as the Baby Bellies.

First playing ball against some newly-formed traveling teams and also traveling sometimes across the Charles for their own Charles Bank rivalry against the Boston Harbor club, the Boston Common Club was in business as a talented group of players in 2289.


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The best player in the Boston Common franchise's history was the #1 overall pick of the 2297 Rookie draft, first baseman Oren Gep of the Diamond City Swatters. He played with Boston Common for four years, ending his time there in 2297 where he had a series of incidents that allowed him to play only 23 games on the season. Still, when he was on the field, he was a force to opposing pitchers, helping his team to the 2297 Boston Youth Series. Unfortunately, his team was only as good as he was, but North Charles Bank dominated with a sweep.

Other notable alumni of the Baby Bellies team include 2299 NCA MVP Zeldoph Violet of Starlight; Diamond City's closer Josh Samm; Jamaica Plain's right fielder Goody Cloyse, the 2nd-overall pick of the 2296 Rookie Draft; and Vault 81's Harry Byrd.



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Where the Boston Common team found one year of success, the Boston Harbor team fared a bit better over time. With a number of opportunities to play games in house against traveling teams, and the team from the Nordhagen Beach area, the Club wasn’t always the best of the Boston Youth teams, but they most certainly played the most ball.

Their absolute best of the best player is catcher Biter Trout of County Crossing. In his two seasons with the Boston Common team before joining the traveling team, the Haymarket Haymakers, Trout found himself as a talent to reckon with. He decided to skip on the 2296 Inaugural Draft, hearing that he would take a 100 caps per month pay cut to join as a rookie. That rumor proved not to be true, though, as high picks in the CBO draft actually made almost 1000 caps more than the Haymakers could pay. That pay change led to most of the traveling teams folding in 2996 after they lost the majority of their top players deemed eligible for the CBO rookie draft.

Other Boston Harbor Club players are Salem's outfielder Danny Honeycutt; Egret's right fielder Bat Savelli; and center fielder Any Why of FHE;


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The Circle Jerks had their only truly successful team in 2290 with the help of players like pitcher Tim Fusion now of the Swatters; 2B Joel Carrotflower of County Crossing; and SP Bruce Iddings of The Slog.

Other players of interest to come through the Jerks include right fielder David Seaweed of Starlight; outfielder Pockets Aintfull and shortstop Sean Koester of Concord; and Finch Farm's Sherwood Forest.


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He's an Earthling. The team now known as the Thompson Heights Earthlings, named for an upper-scale high rise condominium mostly intact in the Roxbury area, followed the Jerks in winning games south of Diamond City. In 2291, they won their only Boston Youth Series over the Goonies before falling to the Goonies in the finals the following year.

They were led at that time by centerfielder Ed Tarberry of County Crossing; left fielder Waze Waiting of Diamond City; Warwick's pitcher Vince Moon; and recently retired pitcher Danny Beerholder.

Even with only one championship year, there have been some talented players who came through the Thompson Heights team. They include three first-rounders in the CBO Inaugural Draft: 3B Ben Pettinato of Quincy; right fielder Dan Erb of Concord; and Easy Town's Aaron Geneva.

This will conclude Part 3 of our History of the Boston Youth Development League here on BosCom TV. Tune in for Part 4 when we take a look at some more of the alumni of the Boston Youth League and explore more of the history of the “Original 10.” Until then, enjoy these highlights from the last week in the CBO!


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