Thank you Oldtime Baseball Game
for supporting The Boston Home!
Former Red Sox stars Lou Merloni and Jonathan Papelbon took part in the 30th annual Abbot Financial Management Oldtime Baseball Game on Thursday, August 22 at St. Peter’s Field in Cambridge. Merloni, whose nine-year big-league career included parts of six seasons with the Red Sox, made his 12th appearance in the Oldtime Baseball Game. During pregame ceremonies he received the 2024 Greg Montalbano Award, given in memory of the late Red Sox pitching prospect who appeared in the Oldtime Baseball Game in 1997 and ’98. Papelbon, an All-Star closer who pitched seven of his 12 major-league seasons with the Red Sox and was a member of Boston’s 2007 World Series championship team, made his first appearance in the Oldtime Baseball Game.
The 2024 Abbot Financial Management
Oldtime Baseball Game
Thursday, August 22, 2024, 7 PM
ST Peter's Field, 65 Sherman ST, Cambridge, MA
The Boston Home is incredibly proud and grateful to be the beneficiary of the Abbot Financial Management Oldtime Baseball Game! Last year, the Oldtime Baseball Game raised over $80,000 to support life enhancing programs for The Boston Home's residents and outpatients. This year, we are swinging for the fences with an ambitious goal of raising $100,000 to improve the lives of people living with multiple sclerosis and other progressive neurological disorders. You can help make it happen!
The Oldtime Baseball Game is FREE to attend with free, nearby parking! Wahlburgers will be at the game serving up delicious ballpark fare. Silent and live auctions offer the chance to win exciting prizes including outstanding sports memorabilia! All proceeds benefit The Boston Home.
Seating at the ballpark is limited. Please plan to bring your own chairs or picnic blankets.
View a map of the location.
For more information, please contact Victoria Stevens, Director of Communications, at 617-326-4310 or vstevens@thebostonhome.org.
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About Oldtime Baseball Game
The Oldtime Baseball Game is a celebration of our national pastime, played each year at beautiful St. Peter’s Field on Sherman Street in North Cambridge. From its humble beginnings in 1994, the game has grown considerably over the years, yet has remained loyal to its mission of offering a glimpse of what it was like in the old days, when hundreds of fans would turn out to root for their “town” team in various local semipro leagues.
What makes the Oldtime Baseball Game so special is our dazzling collection of flannel uniforms that represent virtually every era in baseball history. Used just once a year for the Oldtime Baseball Game, and then returned to storage the uniforms include such long ago teams as the Boston Braves, St. Louis Browns and Brooklyn Dodgers. Teams from the old Negro Leagues are represented by the Kansas City Monarchs, Homestead Grays and Baltimore Elite Giants. Cuba is represented by the legendary Cienfuegos Elefantes. We even have a uniform from a team that never actually existed: the New York Knights for whom Robert Redford’s Roy Hobbs character played in “The Natural.”
Players from the game are chosen from colleges and universities from throughout New England, with an occasional high school player or retired big-leaguer added to the mix. Hall of Fame pitcher Pedro Martinez came out of retirement in 2017 to work two shutout innings in the Oldtime Baseball Game. The 2018 game featured one of the most interesting pitcher-batter match-ups in our game’s history, as legendary Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield faced Pro Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman Raymond Bourque. In 2019, seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens pitched pitched two innings, and then played two more innings at first base. Jim Lonborg, Cy Young Award winner for the 1967 Red Sox, pitched a shutout inning in 2015. Other former big-leaguers include Oil Can Boyd, Mike Pagliarulo, and, of course, Lou Merloni, an annual fixture at the Oldtime Baseball Game.
Thank you to our generous sponsors!
