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1909 Warren Silk Hats won the Inter-State Baseball League Championship. Bottom row: Unidentified; Joe Foley, Holy Cross star pitcher who may have been paid $100 for the season and definitely received a diamond stickpin the following spring; Howie Martin; Bill "Biddy" Smith; Bill "Beany" Ryan; and Fred LaFlamme. Middle row: Jim Parks; Jim Lonergan; Joe Wylie; unidentified; Charlie Kelley; unidentified; Jack Simister; and unidentified. Top row: John McPike and John Simister,Sr. The Bristol team and its fans argued to no avail that one more game had been scheduled and should have been played. (LaFlamme, Martin, Ryan, Jack Simister, and the team itself are members of the Athletic Hall of Fame, as is the not-pictured Curt Chappelle.) (Later in life Jim Lonergan, Howie Martin, John McPike, and "Biddy" Smith were all elected town officials.)
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