NASHUA – It seems like every professional baseball player, or two out of every three, over time, has or has had a nickname. For example, locally, we all remember Butch Hobson, the former Red Sox player, manager, whose real name is Clell Lavern Hobson. There are 27 players in baseball ...
NASHUA – They will return to Holman Stadium on Thursday night, handing out championship rings with the team they beat for the title watching. The Nashua Silver Knights are back, and the league they compete in, the Futures Collegiate League of New England, will this time have a full ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Telegraph Staff Writer Tom King is a member of the Nashua Hall of Fame Committee. By TOM KING Staff Writer NASHUA – It took a mention in passing, a telephone conversation or two, and meeting between Nashua athletic director Lisa Gingras and former Nashua High School ...
NASHUA – Jared Barbosa remembers it well, and it always fuels his fire. An opposing youth soccer coach came up to him about five years ago after a game in which his International Soccer Club of Nashua U-12 dominated and said, in what he described as a condescending manner, “Do your kids ...
NASHUA – It’s a Sweet Sixteen. A lot of high school girls sports teams are thrilled if they have four or five players set to play in college in the future, either the next season or the season after. Well, how about 16? It’s an amazing number. There are nine Bishop Guertin seniors ...
DURHAM – Ed McCabe intended to try out for the University of New Hampshire basketball team when he arrived on campus in 1983. Instead, he wound up being one of the school’s most accomplished track and field performers ever, an All-American in the 35-pound weight throw. That’s the way ...