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Recently, we spoke with Berkshire County resident Kevin Larkin. For those who don t know, Kevin is a walking encyclopedia for baseball. A baseball historian if you will. Kevin has authored many books on baseball including Baseball in the Baystate, Gehrig: Game by Game and Cream of the Crop which is a list of the top 100 Black/Negro players of all-time, including Berkshire County resident Frank Grant.
Red Sox/Yankees Feud has a Berkshire Connection
If you re a Red Sox or Yankees fan you may already know that there is a Berkshire County connection to their feud. Kevin filled us in with the facts and details when we spoke with him. Here s what Kevin had to say:
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Y’all don’t know the history behind the McGreevy name??
Mike “Nuf Ced” McGreevy was the leader of the Royal Rooters, which was the Boston Americans and Boston Red Sox official fan club back in the day.
He owned a bar called the “Third Base Saloon”. Why was it named that?
Because it was the last stop before home.
There’s a band called Dropkick Murphys that owned a Boston bar named McGreevy’s for many years, closing just last August.
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On This Day: Alan Shepard is 1st American in space
On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard became the United States first man in space in a brief sub-orbital flight from Cape Canaveral.
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President Nixon honored the Apollo 14 Astronauts with a White House dinner on March 1, 1971, and presented them with NASA s distinguished Service Medal. Astronaut Alan Shepard (L), after receiving his medal, jokes wth the president, causing Nixon to cover his face with laughter. On May 5, 1961, Shepard became the United States first man in space in a brief sub-orbital flight. File Photo by John Full/UPI | License Photo
Monument to Elsie Mitchell and five children killed by Japanese balloon bomb on May 5, 1945. They were the only civilian deaths on continental U.S. soil in World War II. The monument is located in the Mitchell Recreation Area in Oregon. File Photo by Jayedgerton/Wikimedia