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HISTORY OF M STREET PARK
M Street Park was an instant success, drawing many residents to its sporting events despite the huge mounds of black anthracite in the coal yards directly behind the playing fields. During the twenties, former New England League ptcher Bill "Twilight" Kelly promoted semi professional baseball games at the park on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and during the weekday twilight hours of the late spring and summer months. Working men would get home from work in the afternoon, gulp down a quick supper, and enjoy six or seven innings of a baseball game before darkness closed in. Not only did Twilight bring in some of the most popular semi pro teams in the country, including the Harlem Colored All Stars from New York and the heavily bearded House of David team from Salt Lake City, but he also fielded his own nine, Kelly's South Boston All Stars. Games between these local favorites and groups from other neighborhoods (Cambridge, Dorchester) often attracted more fans to M Street Park than to Braves' Field or Fenway Park.
Source: South Boston is My Home Town by Thomas H. O'Connor
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| DIRECTIONS TO THE PARK: |
Public Transportation (MBTA): take the RED LINE train to BROADWAY. Take the CITY POINT #9 bus to the intersection of L STREET and EAST FIRST STREET. Walk along EAST FIRST STREET heading towards the BOSTON EDISON PLANT. M Street Park is located on the right at the intersection of EAST FIRST STREET and M STREET.
MBTA bus schedules and maps can be found at MBTA.com. |
| North of Boston: take I-93 South heading towards Boston. Take the EXIT [23] and take FIRST LEFT onto SUMMER STREET. Follow detour signs to SUMMER STREET and turn LEFT onto EAST SECOND STREET. Turn LEFT onto M STREET. Playing field is on left. Please park your car on EAST FIRST STREET. |
| South of Boston: take I-93 North heading towards Boston. Take the COLUMBIA ROAD. exit, EXIT 15, towards EDWARD EVERETT SQUARE. Turn RIGHT onto COLUMBIA ROAD. Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto ROTARY. Stay straight to go onto WILLIAM J DAY BOULEVARD for 1.2 miles. Turn LEFT onto L STREET for 1/2 mile. Turn RIGHT onto EAST SECOND STREET. Turn LEFT onto M STREET. Playing field is on left. Please park your car on EAST FIRST STREET. |
| West of Boston: Take I-90 MASS PIKE heading EAST towards BOSTON. Stay straight until end of PIKE. Follow signs toward DOWNTOWN BOSTON - SOUTH STATION. At stop light look follow signs for ATLANTIC AVE - CONGRESS STREET. At fourth set of lights make a RIGHT on to SUMMER STREET (Federal Reserve Bank is on left). Stay straight on SUMMER STREET. Road detours. Follow signs for SUMMER STREET EASTBOUND. Stay STRAIGHT on SUMMER STREET and take LEFT onto EAST FIRST STREET. M STREET Playing field is on right. Please park your car on EAST FIRST STREET. |
| For further directions please consult Mapquest.com and use 12 M Street, South Boston as your destination address. |
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