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The Northern Game — and Beyond 
Baseball in New England and Eastern Canada

The People
Good Eye Leads to Two More Walks for Ted	2
	Bill Nowlin
Did Boston Stay Separate Spahn from 400 Wins?	3
	Dan Schlossberg
The Boston Red Sox and the Integration of African American Players	5
	Craig E. Urch and Sydney Finkelstein 
Diamonds Aren’t Forever	8
	Glenn Stout
Red Sox Break the Mold in 1967	11
	Mark Kanter
T. H. Murnane and the Mysterious “Darkhue White”	12
	Gail Rowe and John S. Phillips
Baseball Verse	16
	Mark W. Schraf
Ted Williams and the Jimmy Fund	18
	Bill Nowlin
Boston Player-Managers	20
	Fred Stein
Personal Encounter: The Search for My First Game by Bill Kirwin	22
The First American League Umpire: Tom Connolly	24
	Herb Crehan
The Baseball Jurist: The Amazing Life of Kenneth Nash 	25
	Greg Beston
“At First Base for the Boston Braves . . . George Sisler”	27
	James Oscar Lindberg
A Boston Baseball Tragedy: The Sad Tale of Marty Bergen	29
	Kerry Keene
Personal Encounter: When Boston Baseball Was Young by Mark Seliber	30
Roland Hemond, “King of Baseball”: An Oral History	31
	Bill Nowlin

The Parks
South End Grounds	36
	Ray Miller
Braves Field and Batting: 1915-1923	39
	Ron Selter
Personal Encounter: Triple Plays at Fenway, Baseball’s Most Romantic Park by Stephen J. Walker	40
Triple A Baseball’s Oldest Stadium Turns 60	42
	Tom Mason
Longellow Meets the Monster	45
	Francis Kinlaw

The Teams
A Tale of One City: Boston’s City Series	48
	Phil Bergen
The ’44 Red Sox: A Season to Remember	51
	Doron (Duke) Goldman
The Miracle Braves	56
	Richard A. Johnson
Let the Games Begin	59
	Andy Dabilis and Nick Tsiotos
Nutmeg Nines: Major League Baseball in Connecticut	62
	David Arcidiacono
The 26-Inning Duel	64
	Norman Macht
The Old Hidden Ball Trick: No Longer Banned in Boston	69
	Bill Deane
Personal Encounter: A Brave New World: The Summer of 1943 by Guy Waterman	72
Yearbooks Document Baseball in the Hub	74
	Maxwell Kates
April 10, 1916: Harvard 1, Boston Red Sox 0	76
	Dick Thompson
The Vermont Baseball Confederacy	78
	Richard Leyden
Minor League Baseball in New England and Eastern Canada	80
	John F. Pardon and Dick Thompson