People have been playing baseball in Westborough since at least 1869. This exhibit showcases items and photographs in the Westborough Center collections that relate to baseball in Westborough history.
Saturday Evening Chronotype, September 4, 1869
Earliest known report of a baseball game in a Westborough newspaper.
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Westborough Baseball Team, 1906
Back Row – [?], George Taylor, Clarence Leland, [?], Mr. Waldren
Second Row – [?], David Roche, Frank Moses
Front Row – Lawrence Taylor, Frank Reily, [?], George Reily
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Westborough Baseball Team, (ca. 1916)
Back Row – Joe Boudreau, John Linnane, Irving Hennessy, Ben Arnold
Second Row – Carl Henry, Leon Rogers, Ken Winter, Bill Crowell
Front Row – Ken Bruce, Leon Cantor(?), Walter Hayden, [?], John Foster
Note: Leon Cantor is also featured in a previous exhibit: Putting Names with Faces: WWI and Veteran’s Day.
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Baseball at the Lyman School, ca. 1905-1912
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Jeff Barclay at bat for the Fays Dairy Little League team in 1959
1959 – Final League Standings (sorry, Jeff)
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Westborough American Legion Baseball Yearbook, 1977
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“Baseball Players,” 2018-2019
Photograph by Brandin Tumeinski, the 2018-2019 Westborough Center Photographer-in-Residence.