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"Boston's Baseball Emergence: A BosCom TV Special Series"

Written and Narrated by Philip Wallace

Animated by Synthsational Art and Design

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Welcome to tonight's feature, Part 2 on "Boston's Baseball Emergence: A BosCom TV Special Series." I am your host Philip Wallace. Tonight we are continuing the history of baseball among the Commonwealth's youth with a breakdown of the “Charles Bank Rivalry” and how those first baseball games impacted what would become the Commonwealth Baseball Organization. Today, the original rivals faced off for the first time in the 2300 season, a big change from the history of their rivalry.

First, let’s start with the 12-year rivalry between the North Charles Goonies and the South Charles Moonies. Originally started as a pick-up game on the banks of the Charles. When the North Charles team hosted games, teams played near the ruins of the C.I.T. When the South Charles team hosted, they played just northwest of Hangman’s Alley, which is now part of Diamond City.

In the beginning, players on the teams were organized but not exactly a “youth” team throughout. Most players were at least 13 years of age, including our featured “DC3,” three highly-talented youngsters from Diamond City who would join the South Charles Moonies mostly made up of people from Diamond City with a few other players coming from Oberland, Vault 81, and some unknown settlements to play. The oldest player known to play at that time was a 29-year-old, Dustbin Charles, who disappeared and never made it to the CBO days. The best, starting in 2290, was Austin Engill, who later became the CBO’s #1 overall draft pick.

The North Charles Goonies had an assortment of players at first from different areas, two as far away as Covenant! Most of the others came from recently Brotherhood of Steel-patrolled outposts in Cambridge, Graygarden, and Lexington. Two talented players with the Goonies were SP Quentin Malone and OF Patty Cuttooth, whom we interview later in this segment.


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Cue: Interviews with the DC3: Sheng Kawolski, Pete Pembroke, and Gavin Eviritts



Most of the games played on until players started to tire out. While there were rudimentary rules, such as three outs per inning, teams did not play a simple 9-inning game. Statistics were not kept in those days, just who the winner was. Games would sometimes be called for different reasons: darkness, radstorms, wasteland critters in the area, raider raids, among other reasons.

Both the Goonies and Moonies started becoming more serious about their games some time around 2292 when they became more organized and started keeping track of scores and following the true rules of baseball. Still, by that time, the teams estimated that they had already faced off more than 150 times!



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Cue: Interviews with Quentin Malone and Patty Cuttooth



Now, the 2291 change. As mentioned in Part 1 of our feature, Nate Howard had already secured most of the Commonwealth by 2291, including the “unholy” alliance of the four factions of the Commonwealth: the Brotherhood of Steel, the Minutemen, the Institute, and the Railroad. During that year, a person only called the Mysterious Stranger appeared as a regular around the Commonwealth. The strangest part was that he would speak to Nate Howard but no one else. He was often there as Nate started to spread baseball as the pastime of the Commonwealth.

Their first mission was to organize the Charles River teams, as well as the other squads that had been popping up around since 2289. We’ll feature more of the “Original 10” in Part 3 of the series. For the Goonies and Moonies, games started to become 9-inning affairs with baserunning rules. The teams both also dropped the “peg out” rule, which reduced the number of injuries. The peg out rule was usually in effect when teams could not field a full 9-player team. With that rule, players did not need to touch a base for a tag out. Instead, they could throw the ball at baserunners. As long as they were not touching one of the white plates on the field, they were not considered safe. After several players suffered broken noses, cheeks, and ribs, many were happy to no longer play with peg outs. Some of the more aggressive players, of course, were not happy to drop that rule. Sheng Kawolski was quoted as saying the dropping of the rule was “utter *********.” He was reprimanded by Nate Howard, and later agreed it was a great rule, especially when he learned of the concept of “effective and necessary beanballing.”

Starting in 2291, a Mysterious Stranger made his way to the Commonwealth. By that time, the place was free of all "war" and the Stranger and Nate went on a daily teleportation mission to teach the fundamentals of the game and make promises of a league to come where players would be paid in caps to play. That helped to start a traveling baseball circuit, some youth-based and some for all ages. Teams like the Boylston Club Boys, the Quannapowitt Mud Hoppers, the Malden Middlemen, the Postal Square BC, the Bunker Hill Caravans, the Hangman's Alley Players, the Hardware Town Scrappers, and the DC Travelin' Traders put on shows for audiences thirsting for entertainment.

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Nate Howard had also sold to the people of the Commonwealth that the game of baseball would be the grand equalizer, bringing the people of the Commonwealth together for a common cause. None of that was more evident than the number of people who would show up to watch the Moonies take on the Goonies. The fields were still open, and some of the fans under the influence of alcohol or chems would get involved sometimes. A few of the ghoulified settlers started their own league of umpires, practicing their skills on the Goonies and Moonies games, as well as some more of the Original 10’s games. With the success of the two Charles Bank teams, more teams started organizing. Though the majority of the games played were between the two original teams, one of those two would always play in a series against another team that Nate Howard would call the Boston Youth Series, which is still the name now that the BYDL has become an official league of the CBO.

While the Moonies beat the Goonies for the first Series in 2288 when they were the only two teams, the Moonies lost to the team in Boston Common, 5 games to 4, in 2289 and lost to the Circle Jerks from Fairline Hill Estates in 2290, 7 games to 4.

In 2291, when Nate finally organized the youth teams to play in a league, the Goonies took over as the stronger team, beating the Moonies 25 games to 17 that year. They also won all five games they played against the Diamond City and Boston Common teams. North Charles Bank then beat the Boston Harbor team, 4 games to 1. However, the Goonies then lost to the Thompson Heights team from Roxbury, then only known as the Earthlings, 4 games to 3.

The Goonies mostly dominated the Moonies for the following years, only losing the series to South Charles once in the coming years, when the Moonies took the series 30 games to 14 in 2295. However, they were no match that year against the defending Boston Youth Series champions, the Pleasant Minigunners based in Covenant. The Minigunners went on to defeat the Earthlings in the 2295 Series. As far as the Goonies were concerned, they won their first Boston Youth Series in 2292 over the Earthlings and then lost the following year in the Series to the Boston Harbor Club.

After 2295, every season has been the Goonies’ year in the Goonies-Moonies rivalry, including winning the Boston Youth Series over Boston Common in 2296 and 2297 and over the Green Future Sea Urchins from Medford in 2298. Last year, the Goonies also won the Charles Bank Rivalry, but fell in the semifinals to the Beerthirty Sippers, who earned their first Boston Youth Series title by defeating the Diamond City Newsboys in a battle for both teams’ first Boston Youth Series appearance.


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This will conclude Part 2 of our History of the Boston Youth Development League here on BosCom TV. Tune in for Part 3 when we take a look at some of the alumni of the Boston Youth League and explore more of the history of the “Original 10.” Until then, play ball!


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