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James Mason Prentice (May 29, 1909 – January 16, 2005) was an American game designer and businessman who founded The Electric Game Company. At the age of 17 he invented a simple electric baseball game which went on to become his best-selling game, as well as the first board game of its kind to use electrical relays.
The Holyoke Bombers were a professional American football team based in Holyoke, Massachusetts. [1] They played one season as a member of the Atlantic Coast Football League in 1965. [ 2 ] The Bombers finished with a 2–9–1 record in its only ACFL season.
Of the many Franco-American institutions that once existed, a handful remain. Among the few extant French groups in Holyoke is the Beavers Club of Western Massachusetts, a charity founded in 1945 by a group of French-Canadian Holyoke tradesmen who found themselves unable to join the area's other service organizations.
Year Division 1A Division 1 Division 2 Division 3 Division 4 Division 5; 1934 Walpole 1935: Somerville: 1936: Templeton 1937: Lynn English: 1938: Brockton
Mackenzie Stadium is a baseball venue located in Holyoke, Massachusetts. [2] It was home to the Holyoke Millers and today is used by both the Valley Blue Sox of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (since 2008) [2] and the Elms College Blazers of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (since 2005). [3]
Below is a list of Concord Quarry Dogs (2001–2007), Holyoke Blue Sox (2008–2012) and Valley Blue Sox (2014–2014) alumni who have gone on to play professional baseball at the AA level or higher. The alumni are sorted by peak level of baseball in which they have participated.
The Holyoke Paperweights were a professional minor league baseball team based in Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA, that played in the now defunct Connecticut League from 1903 to 1911. From 1907 to 1911, they were also known as the Papermakers. [1] The team won the league pennant of the 1905 and 1907 seasons.
One of the most prominent secular community organizations of the early 20th century was the Churchill Athletic and Social Club, which maintained at least a baseball team, as early as 1904. [5] Most commonly referred to as the Churchill Athletic Club (CAC), the group's football team, generally known as "the Churchills", would be local reigning ...