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• Somewhat Famous: Lynn Baseball

  July 1 2010 Posted by under Lynnteresting

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  “Somewhat Famous”: Lynn Baseball
  
  Lynn has a proud tradition of cheering on her children in Little League and the local high school baseball teams, and it is one more New England bedroom community with a long history of cheering for and complaining about the Boston Red Sox, but long ago, when baseball was being born, it was the biggest thing in town. It combined the spectacle of a visiting circus with the chest-thumping patriotism of a battle between armies. Let me take you through a modest little history of the birth of baseball in Lynn, told in nine innings:
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