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DeSorgher: The Tradition Continues—Happy 60th Birthday to Medfield Little League
Happy 60th birthday Medfield Little League ... from thousands and thousands of former and current grateful Medfield kids.
In 1939 Carl Stotz of Williamsport, Pennsylvania came up with the concept and founded today’s Little League Baseball. In the early 1950’s, Medfield’s Vincent "Red" Palumbo got together a group of baseball enthusiasts here in Medfield including Jim Frame, Paul Seeley, Eugene Preston, Joe Marcionette, Larry McKenney, Francis Scribner, Bill Palumbo, William Sullivan, Joseph Kennedy, Earl Kerr, Lawrence Rossi, Morris Geller, Bob Coulter and Charlie Boehm. From these individuals a constitution was written, officers were elected, including Red Palumbo being elected Little League’s first president, and coaches were selected for the first four Little League teams in Medfield: The Red Sox, Braves, Indians and Yankees. The year was 1952 and Little …
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F. Joseph Dugan
3:58 pm on Saturday, April 21, 2012
Richard: Regarding your outline on the Medfield Little League, I was the first picture at the first official game at the newly constructed Little League Park in Medfield. Unfortunately, my first pitch was a ball. Regards Joe Dugan more ›