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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 5 of "Boston's Baseball Emergence: A BosCom TV Special Series." I am your host Philip Wallace. Tonight we are looking at the Next 10, Part 1, and how they started to change the youth leagues at the time of the Commonwealth Baseball Organization’s emergence. These changes were delayed by one year after the CBO began but they most certainly set the tone for the CBO taking over full control of the youth leagues as they have in 2300.

Our first look at the Next 10 begins with five of the teams, currently named the Andrew Station Southies, the Beantown Sprouts, the Concord-Lexington Minuteboys, the Frat Post 115 Leaders, and the Hester Mechanists.



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The Southies were a part of five traveling teams who closed shop in 2297 and joined the newly-minted Boston Youth Development League. It was a conglomeration of teams participating in a single “league” but who hardly saw or knew of other teams far away due to traveling restrictions. The traveling teams had been something different, but many of them would not move too far away from their own areas to play other teams and many of them were used to playing “no-fence” rules, open ballparks that led to lots and lots and lots of runs scored.

In fact, the Southies, as they were first known during their travel team days, once reportedly had a final score of 100-82 in a game in 2294 against a team known as the Chemboosters. We have not found any data of that team and what happened to them. The Southies, though, were known as a tough club that liked to embarrass teams on their home turf.
Despite being a pretty tough club, there were few players over the traveling team years who found themselves in the CBO. It wasn’t until 2297 when they joined the BYDL and were able to gain a few players through a talent redistribution mostly aided by players from other regions. The Southies gained a few players to join their team and all reported having to “fight their way to acceptance.”

One of the players the Southies received was pitcher Emperry Alizm. Alizm was the Earthlings’ top pitcher from 2294-2296, including helping guide the Earthlings to the 2295 Sole Survivor Series. Alizm went to the Southies and immediately got the respect of his teammates, mostly because of the high-powered fastballs he would throw at their heads when they became too confident. Even though the Southies won few games in their 2297 campaign, Alizm went a perfect 9-0 in 12 starts. He was then taken as the 11th overall player in the 2297 Rookie Draft bu the Vault 81 Dwellers. Today, he pitches out of the bullpen for the Concord Radstags, hoping to break into the Starting Four soon.

A year later, the Southies again poached an Earthlings player, receiving catcher Racky Westheim, who went #18 overall in the 2298 draft. He now is on the CBO’s Oberland team, having started five games so far in 2300.


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The Beantown Sprouts were a different brood than some of the other teams that joined the BYDL in 2297. Unlike some of the other teams, the Sprouts had no affiliations with traveling teams or their own youth team before that time. Based in Graygarden, there were only a few local youths at the time since the Graygarden area was mostly inhabited by traveling workers, most of them older who only needed to aid the robots maintaining the gardens.

Thanks to a few players, the Sprouts could be somewhat competitive, but that did not show in 2297 when they won only 9 of their 50 games played. One player they did receive in the talent redistribution was a talented outfielder, Gunner Eyesocket, from the Beerthirty Sippers. Eyesocket happened to explode in his final BYDL year in 2298 when he hit an even .500 in 25 appearances. He was not able to play all games that season, but when he was there, he averaged more than two hits a game, including 13 home runs in 2298.

Later, in the 2298 Rookie Draft, Eyesocket was selected 4th overall by the Jamaica Plain Red Rockets. After starting every game for the BMU’s Haymarket Mall Commandos in 2299, Eyesocket has returned to the Commandos. In 21 games so far this season, Eyesocket is hitting .337, showing that the 21-year-old may not be far away from playing in the CBO.


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Another of the traveling teams, the Concord-Lexington Minuteboys actually lost talent during the talent redistribution rather than gaining it. That meant a team that could have competed with any other team in the BYDL had less talent to work with than before.

The reason the Concord-Lexington team was so talented was because their traveling team was made up of their best players from their very own Concord-Lexington Youth League, established in 2293 and folding after the 2296 season. That league was made up of six teams: the Stingwings, Red Shirts, and Freedom Fighters in Concord and the Ghouls, Super Dupers, and Sexy Lexies in Lexington. They would often delay games against each other to put together their best squad to make an all-star traveling team. That team would then travel to places as far as Salem to play against teams from the Charlestown Youth League and the Charlestown Traveling Boys. They would also face off against the Goonies, Moonies, and Newsboys from time to time and any other teams they could find in Cambridge or other spots north of the Charles River.
When the talent redistribution occurred, some of the Concord-Lexington players decided to stay in places they had traveled before, actually giving a boost to North Charles Bank and South Charles Bank, who would regularly beat the Concord-Lexington team.

One good player to join Concord-Lexington was the younger brother of a CBO player, outfielder Moses Church. He hit an impressive .495 with the Minuteboys in 2298. Later the Roxbury Knuckle Punchers, now the Roxbury Rad Sox, took him as the 12th overall pick. Like Jamaica Plain’s Eyesocket, Church is having a lot of success in the BMU. He plays for the Forest Grove Pugilists, batting .372 in 2300 with four home runs and 11 runs batted in in 21 games.


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The Frat Post 115 team was another of the teams that had no history in baseball, but they did receive a few players from the North Charles Bank Goonies who stayed closer to home during the talent redistribution.
The Goonies players were not anywhere near starting quality. In fact, the only player they received of value in 2297 was shortstop Max Standing from the Green Future team. Standing was a good player on a bad team. In two seasons and 41 total games with the Frat Post 115 team, Standing was one of only two players to hit above .300. The Frat Post 115 team was only 6-35 in those games.

Standing improved his stock in 2298, batting .415 with eight home runs and 29 runs batted in. He also committed only one error at shortstop. With that knowledge, the Atom Cats of the CBO made Standing the 19th overall pick in the 2298 draft.

The other player to hit over .300 during the time that Standing was there was Wolf McQuaid. McQuaid played second base in 2298 and then moved to shortstop in 2299. Thanks to his outstanding defense and a decent bat in the BYDL, McQuaid was drafted 9th overall in 2299 by the FHE Yao Guai.


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The final team we will look at in this week’s show is the Hester Mechanists team. Sponsored by the Mechanist herself, Isabel Cruz, the Mechanists benefitted from being one of the few youth league teams with money backing them. The talent redistribution, however, did not allow enough talent to compete against the established teams. But there were players who gained a lot with the Mechanists club.

Most of the original and local players for the 2297 team put together had parents working through the Hester Consumer Electronics shop. That first player that saw his stock rise suddenly was an OK player with Boston Common who played his final season in 2297 with the Mechanists. He was Er Temptation, a 2297 draft pick by the Nordhagen Beach Party Boys, number 18 overall. In 26 games, Temptation hit more home runs, 13, than he had hit in two seasons with the Boston Common club. While his overall skills have appeared to be limited, Temptation is having his best BMU season yet. In 20 games with 16 starts, he is hitting .382 but only has one home run in 55 at bats.

In 2298, the Mechanists had one more standout, Bob Bloodbug. Bloodbug played with four different teams in four years, mostly because of his family moving often. In his final season in the BYDL, he hit .457 with Hester, helping him to be take as the 15th pick in the 2298 Rookie Draft by University Point. He has since been traded to the The Slog franchise where he plays with their BMU team, the Outpost Zimonja Strongbacks.

This will conclude Part 5 of our History of the Boston Youth Development League here on BosCom TV. Tune in for Part 6 when we explore the second half of the "Next 10," ten teams added to the BYDL in 2297. Until then, enjoy some of this week’s highlights in the BYDL. See you next week on BosCom TV!

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