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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 6 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 2, and how they started to change the youth leagues at the time of the Commonwealth Baseball Organization’s emergence.

The other five teams of the Next 10 include current BYDL teams the Jamaica-U Point Death Rockets, the Kendal Hospital Yahoos, the South Beach Waves, the State House Orphans, and the Wattz Ups.



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The Jamaica-U Point team started in 2297 but did not adopt the Death Rockets name until the 2298 season. Of course, their team name is an amalgam of the University Point Deathclaws, “Death,” and the Jamaica Plains Red Rockets, “Rockets.” The players on the 2298 team were proud to both come up with the name, logo, and colors without CBO designer Erin Reische’s help. Reische was still responsible for their 2300 uniforms.

While many of the current BYDL teams had either a local youth team or a traveling team, it took a while before enough youth lived in the Jamaica Plains and University Point areas. That was the main reason why the two settlements began to combine their teams. With the help of Nate Howard’s organizational skills, enough youth were sent to the area in 2297 in an established Boarding School in Jamaica Plain to start fielding a team. That field was an open area between Jamaica Plain and University Point where a new path was constructed between the two settlements for easier movement for caravans.

In 2297, the best player went to the Jamaica-U Point team from the South Charles Bank Moonies, first baseman Chase Doctorman. Doctorman, who was drafted 5th overall in the 2298 Rookie Draft, hit .494 in his second year with Jamaica-U Point, showing patience and power. While he is currently with the Vault 95 Robobrains, he will be a welcome addition to the Vault 81 team in time, or if current starter Jason Robinson would happen to go down with an injury.

Unfortunately for the Death Rockets, Doctorman turned out to be their only true star, making them one of the least successful additions to the BYDL so far. Even this season, they are at the bottom of their division, 19 games back of 1st-place Diamond City, the largest deficit in the BYDL. With that said, they do have a future star in 2B Diamond Ball, a sophomore. He has looked every part like he may be the best player in Jamaica-U Point history. But that is the future, and this is about history. So, let’s move on to our second featured team this week.



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The Yahoos, sponsored by Kendall Hospital, was a team comprised mostly of players whose parents work for Kendall Hospital or around the fields for Union Hope Cathedral. They were known only as the Yahoos from their travel-team days all the way to last year. This year, they adopted the Kendall Hospital Yahoos name. The Yahoos name comes from a writer named Jonathan Swift in a book called Gulliver’s Travels where the creatures were described as “brutes in human form,” much like Super Mutants.

While they took on some talent distribution starting in 2297, the Yahoos top player so far was a returnee to the area in 2297, first baseman Jackie Shepherd. Shepherd is the son of Kendall Hospital's top surgeon, Dr. Christian Shepherd. Jackie Shepherd played across the river with the Diamond City Newsboys in 2296 before going home in 2297 and playing with the Yahoos for the next three seasons.

Shepherd began his ascent as a star for the Yahoos in 2298. That season he hit .481 with 9 homers in just 25 games. In 2299, he upped that batting average to .490 with 9 more home runs. Those two seasons made him a top commodity in the 2299 draft when he was taken 7th overall by the Concord Radstags. In his first season there, he is struggling a bit, but he looks to be a future power hitter in the league once he learns how to hit more off-speed pitches.

The first top player from the Yahoos drafted into the CBO was center fielder Cornelius Humperdink the fourth. Humperdink’s family lived in vaults for settling in the Commonwealth area in 2289 in Easy Town. At first, Humperdink played with the Beerthirty Sippers from 2295-2297, though he played sparingly in center field there. His success with the Yahoos in 2298 helped him to be taken 11th overall by the FHE Yao Guai. However, they soon traded him to Egret. He currently plays for the Somerville Place Sentry Bots.



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The team that came closest of the “Next 10” to break into the playoffs was the South Beach Waves based in South Boston. Another of the traveling teams turned into a BYDL team, the Waves had a handful of steady players over the years, but the talent redistribution gave them a stud by the name of Eugene Gym.

Gym, taken 1st overall in the 2298 Rookie Draft, was responsible for 10 of the team’s 15 wins in 2298, making them fall just below the four finalists that season: North Charles Bank, Green Future, Boston Common, and the Earthlings. As a reward for his 10-1 record with a 1.34 ERA, Gym was taken by the Roxbury Rad Sox. He has yet to break into the CBO team, but he is expected to be future ace worthy as the #4 overall prospect. He was also a relief pitcher with the 2295 BYDL champions, the Pleasant Minigunners.

Another top player with the Waves from 2297-2298 after talent redistribution was third baseman David Yellowsky, taken 23rd overall in the 2298 draft by the Oberland T-51s. However, he was soon traded to Finch Farm in a big trade that netted the T-51s top center fielder Ginger Rogers. Currently Yellowsky plays for the Galleria Robotics Experts.



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The State House Orphans have an interesting history from our perspective. In 2290, the Massachusetts State House near Boston Common was converted into the State House Orphanage, a boarding house and school for orphaned children in the Commonwealth. The orphanage houses children up to the age of 16 who are not adopted by other families or communities. It trains children in a well-rounded education, work skills, and athletics. Most of the boys of the orphanage have taken up baseball as their athletics concentration. Thus the Orphans exist.

Not every player with the Orphans is actually an orphan, though. One of those who joined the team in 2297 was second baseman Harry Byrd. He made the short trip from Boston Common to take on his former teammates after a tiff with a couple of teammates following their series loss to the North Charles Bank Goonies in 2296.

With the Orphans in 2297, he upped his stock by hitting .469 with 8 homers. In two years with Boston Common, he had never hit a home run, except for one inside-the-park one. With a short right field for the Orphans’ ballpark, he knocked all eight over the fence. That granted him being taken as the last player in the 1st round of the 2297 rookie draft by the Oberland T-51s. Like Yellowsky mentioned before, Oberland immediately turned around that pick to try to build their CBO roster, sending Byrd to Vault 81. Byrd referred to that trade as motivation to make Oberland pay. He has indeed, as he is now considered to be one of the top second basemen in the CBO. In his second year with the Dwellers, he bats leadoff for the South Charles Association and Railroad League’s top team. His average is .322 and he has 6 home runs.

The only other player to play for the Orphans and get drafted high was right fielder Bob Bloodbug, taken 15th overall by the University Point Deathclaws in the 2298 Rookie Draft. However, Bloodbug moved around a lot with his family, so he played on four different teams in four years: the Boston Harbor Club in 2295, the Beerthirty Sippers in 2296, the Orphans in 2297, and the Hester Mechanists in 2298.



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Our final team to feature is the Wattz Ups, established as a new team in 2297 without having a previous travel team or local youth team. The team is named after the local business in Cambridge, Wattz Consumer Electronics, partially owned by Red Rocket and Red Rockets owner Kasumi Nakano.

The Ups developed their team name from an old expression that means hello, “What’s up?” Someone associated with the club read the expression in an old comic and the name stuck starting in 2297. Ups, however, has not been a good description of the team from 2297-2299, as they have won few games overall in their 25-game seasons. Because their local talent was devoid of CBO-quality talent, they needed more talent distributed to their team, but not enough could be sent there.

One good player they did receive was catcher Dopey Meanie who came from the Circle in 2297. In two years with the Wattz Ups, Meanie showed that he was a quality player, earning him the 22nd overall draft selection in the 2298 Rookie Draft by the Nordhagen Beach Party Boys. Some thought that he was a reach pick at that position because of limited hitting potential. However, he did have a live arm and a decent ability to block the plate, too, which means that he does have some potential of at least being a backup catcher in the CBO one day.

This season, the Ups do have a player that could potentially be their highest pick in team history, left fielder Baktu DaWell. DaWell has been considered a potential Top 10 pick in the 2300 Rookie Draft. He is currently hitting .457 with 26 home runs in 50 games, meaning he is a potential MVP candidate in the BYDL. Those 26 home runs make him tied for 5th in the entire league. He also currently leads the BYDL in WAR at 4.1 and runs at 91. He is not history yet, but he is the first superstar in Wattz’s history.

Well, men, women, boys, girls, ghouls, and synths, and bots of the Commonwealth, this will conclude Part 6 of our History of the Boston Youth Development League here on BosCom TV. Tune in for Part 7 when we explore the final four teams added this season in 2300. Until then, enjoy some of this week’s highlights around the Commonwealth. See you next week on BosCom TV!



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