It’s a banner day: Nashua, New Hampshire made Deadspin. Wheee. For those who don’t like clicking links, the city of Nashua locked the American Defenders of New Hampshire out of Holman Stadium yesterday afternoon due to a number of unpaid bills. The team and city could not reach an agreement on an acceptable payment plan, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Nashua Pride’
8 May
You Want Mascot Stories? I’ve Got Mascot Stories
Yesterday, Extra P brought us the story of Jacob Osterhout and his audition to be the mascot for the Brooklyn Cyclones. Jacob’s story made me laugh, yeah, but it also caused some seriously scary flashbacks. As I’ve mentioned on here a time or ten, I used to work for a professional baseball team (I think [...]
6 Mar
Life After Baseball
So hey, remember yesterday when I went on a mini-rant about the way old ballplayers have a tendency to fade gently into anonymity without anyone really noticing, and as an example I used the fact that I knew the whereabouts of perhaps one or two of the guys from my time in baseball? Mr. Moynahan, [...]
24 Oct
Butch Hobson Gets His Number Retired (Video)
I wrote early in the season about the ceremony to retire Butch Hobson’s number 17 in Nashua. Looking around YouTube tonight, I found a video of the event:
12 Sep
The Shot Heard Round Nashua
I was sitting in the scoreboard booth of the Holman Stadium press box, above and to the left of home plate, when James Lofton hit the most dramatic homerun my eyes have ever seen. The game had not started off well for the hometown Nashua Pride, knotted with the Bridgeport Bluefish at one-win apiece in [...]
29 Aug
You Can Run, D’Avilia, But You Can’t Hide
You remember the old show “Unsolved Mysteries”, right? The one hosted to perfection by Robert Stack? Every so often, they would go through a case, present all the weird details, Stack would wrap it up…then, out of nowhere, the word “UPDATE” or “SOLVED” or something like that would flash on the screen and we would [...]
2 Jul
Welcome Back, Brian Daubach. We Missed You
When I went to a couple Nashua Pride games over Opening Weekend, I remember making a mental note that the team’s hitting coach was former major league slugger Richie Hebner, who also coached in Boston during my formative years as a fan. Maybe a week or two later, I noticed that Pittsburgh was giving away [...]
1 Jun
The Long, Winding Road To Complete Nerd-dom
“You know, they have Monkey Boy bobbleheads for sale out front.” Those were the words uttered by my friend Allison in the eighth inning of the Nashua Pride game last night. She and her boyfriend, Cody, had just returned from an excursion around the ballpark with my son. Holman Stadium is not that big, and [...]
30 May
Nashua Pride Opening Weekend Pictures
It only took a week, but I finally managed to get some pictures from last week’s Nashua Pride games that my wife and I attended. Big props to Mrs. OMDQ, who downloads these from the camera because I’m too technologically illiterate to do it myself. Looking at the field for the first time, Joey appeared [...]
25 May
Butch Hobson Night in Nashua? I’m So There
As previously promised, my wife and I ventured a few miles down the road again on Friday to watch the Rox of Brockton square off against the Pride of Nashua in an official Canadian-American League regular season contest. We probably wouldn’t have bothered if not for a couple my wife used to babysit for in high school – they’ve [...]
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