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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 4 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 2, and how they started to shape baseball as we know it in the Commonwealth. We featured six of the “Original 10” so far. Tonight, we will look at the other four teams of the Original 10, the Beerthirty Sippers, the Diamond City Newsboys, the Green Future Sea Urchins, and the Pleasant Minigunners.



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By 2291, the Boston Youth League was up to 10 teams, though they still played each other sparingly with one final Boston Youth Series against each other. The Newsboys started out by traveling to play several games against the North Charles Bank Goonies and South Charles Bank Goonies. Occasionally, they would play at Boston Common and Boston Harbor, and play at makeshift fields against traveling teams, like the Andrew Station Southies, the Yahoos from the Cambridge area, and the Haymarket Haymakers.

On the other hand, the Minigunners, Sea Urchins, and Sippers developed together thanks to some local caps investments. Pleasant, located in Covenant; Green Future, located just east of Malden near Greentop Nursery; and Beerthirty, located at Revere Beach just north of Easy Town played mostly against each other. The teams were invited to join the also newly-formed Charlestown League, which folded last year as part of the BYDL merger. That league was made up of five teams: the Coastal Cottage Fishpackers, the Kingsport Lighthouse Glow Ghouls, the Lynn Pier Parkers, the Nahant Whalers, and the Salem Devils. While the three decided to joint the Boston Youth League instead, they would play games against the Charlestown League.

However, it was not until 2294 that they started actually playing games against other teams in the Boston Youth League. At that point, Pleasant was the dominant team of the three, allowing them to join the Round of 4 in the BYL. In 2294, they also proved to be the best team of those four, winning the Boston Youth Series in their first appearance there. Beerthirty also won most of their games, but they lost series to Pleasant and the Earthlings to finish in fourth.



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The Beerthirty Sippers are the defending champions in the BYDL with a talented roster led by the sophomore SS Cope Kearns, a key contributor last season. They were led by 1st-overall pick in the 2299 Rookie Draft, Nuke Laloosh, who can be considered the best player in the team's history.

The Sippers were named after a business at Revere Beach, the Beerthirty Saloon, with its special "Happy Hour" it calls the Chug Session. Since the youth team was made up of kids, they joked that they needed to sip instead of chug. Thus the Beerthirty Sippers were born.

In addition to Laloosh, alumni of the Sippers include Millioncap Go, pitchers Tony Bertha and Ugio Church of Salem, Roxbury #1 overall pick Beachboy Nut, and Ben Pawlak of the Fort Hagen Silver Shroud.


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Publick Occurrences became intrigued with baseball and decided running up to watch the Goonies and Moonies were not good enough. That is when they started collecting some of the younger people of Diamond City to form their own team instead of playing for South Charles Bank.

Some of the schoolchildren worked as newsboys spreading Publick Occurences copies around Diamond City and to protected areas in Downtown Boston. They started off their team with the quirk of wearing their newsboys caps to play ball.

While the team has never won the BYDL, they have had an influx of talent in recent seasons, making the Round of Four three of the past five seasons, including being runners-up to Beerthirty last season. Currently with the best record in the BYDL, they look to be the favorites this season with senior pitcher Dave Cregger and junior pitchers Gerardo Vega and Ryan Goodpryce. They also added the highly-talented freshmen outfielders Magnum Peaeye and Pretty Boy Richards to the 2300 roster.

The best player from the Newsboys is 2298 Rookie of the Year of Vault 81, center fielder Aesed Hayjen, who is also an MVP candidate in 2300. Other good players from the Newsboys includes the Lexington Synths' Crooked Tostado, Jamaica Plain's Hid Matsumoto, and Chris Van Benschoten of The Slog.


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The Green Future Sea Urchins took their team name, which at first was just Green Future, based on a sign at Greentop Nursery: "The future is Green!" Thanks to CBO commissioner Nate Howard, that was indeed a fact now that every field in the CBO and BMU feature GECK-aided green fields.

It wasn't until 2296, the team's sixth year, that they adopted the Sea Urchins team name. That name was derived from a sign found in a bunker in Malden. It featured a poster with a black figure with an eyeball in the middle. The poster had written on it, "Save the Sea Urchins!"

They have not been a successful team in their history, finally having a winning season for the first time in 2298, partially thanks to the influx of new teams they played that season. The Sea Urchins progressed all the way to the Boston Youth Series where they fell to the North Charles Bank Goonies. This season, they are currently in first place, meaning they could make the playoffs for the first time ever in this expanded season.

They have not had a lot of top talent come through their team over the years, with center fielder Witcher Craft of Diamond City as their top current player. However, two players from the 2298 team, pitcher Scruffy Taguchi and third baseman Ajani Peacock, went #2 and #3 overall in the 2298 Rookie Draft. Oberland's catcher Tenthree Leader is also a Green Future alumnus.


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The Pleasant Minigunners were the first team of the last four of the Original 10 to find success. The team is based in Covenant, known for the settlement's "happy, pleasant settlement" (don't tell that to synths from before 2288!) slogan.

The Gunners made their first Round of Four in 2294, leading to back-to-back Youth Series championships in 2294 and 2295. Those teams were loaded with current CBO talent, including former MVP Bryan Assman of Goodneighbor, as well as 2300 MVP candidate Tomas Jones of University Point. Fort Hagen's Brent Hooker, the #2 overall pick in the Inaugural Draft, was the ace for the Minigunners. The #1 overall pick of the 2298 Rookie Draft, Eugene Gym, was on the team in 2295 and 2296 before moving to South Beach for the 2297 talent redistribution.

This will conclude Part 4 of our History of the Boston Youth Development League here on BosCom TV. Tune in for Part 5 when we explore the first half of the "Next 10," ten teams added to the BYL in 2297. We will also offer an explanation of the first talent redistribution, aided by the CBO's scouting association. We hope you have enjoyed this iteration of our special program. Please tune in again next week.


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