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Spark Academy’s first graduating class includes 9 seniors who earned associate’s degrees from MCC

read more…: Spark Academy’s first graduating class includes 9 seniors who earned associate’s degrees from MCC

“These kids worked really hard, and their persistence and sheer determination to reach the goal they set for themselves four years ago makes me very proud,” said Dan Larochelle, Advanced Manufacturing Department Chair at MCC and one of Spark Academy’s founders.

Nashua’s Holman Stadium becomes part of the Black Heritage Trail of NH

read more…: Nashua’s Holman Stadium becomes part of the Black Heritage Trail of NH

The shrine to baseball that was Ebbets Field is gone, but the shrine to the triumph of the human spirit over the tragedy that was racial segregation in America that is Holman Stadium, remains. And that shrine was honored Tuesday night when Nashua’s historic baseball park became the eighth memorial on the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire.

The Nashua Dodgers: America’s first integrated pro baseball team in the 20th Century

read more…: The Nashua Dodgers: America’s first integrated pro baseball team in the 20th Century

On Tuesday, May 30, Holman Stadium will officially become part of the New Hampshire Black History Trail, when a plaque is dedicated honoring the ballyard’s role in serving as the home of the first integrated American professional baseball team in the 20th Century. The 1946 Nashua Dodgers featured  Negro Leagues veterans Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe, who along with Jackie Robinson, were the nucleus of the 1949-56 Brooklyn Dodgers Dynasty that won five National League pennants and one World Series in eight years.

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