‘The Color of Baseball’ shines light on past black baseball leagues

By Johanna Kaiser, Town Correspondent As Fenway Park celebrates its 100th anniversary and the Red Sox look ahead to a new season, one Boston museum is looking back on the history of the baseball and local African American teams. The Museum of African American History on Beacon Hill’s Joy Street is displaying a new exhibit titled the “The Color of Baseball” set to open this month. The exhibit focuses on the history of black teams, the players, and the sports community during baseball’s early years. On display will be photographs and equipment of the day, including the shoes socks, bags, Continue reading >>>

Growth In I-495 Leases

Office space along the Interstate 495 corridor saw some growth in occupancy rates in the first quarter of the year, though not as much as in other parts of Greater Boston, according to a report by Richards Barry Joyce Partners.The area saw an increase in occupancy of 0.7 percent, resulting in a 20-percent vacancy rate. For the entire Greater Boston area, the growth rate was 2 percent and the vacancy rate ended up at 15.3 percent.The report noted that asking rents in the I-495 area have been falling, and it noted a particularly strong renters' market in Marlborough, where space is available at Continue reading >>>

Baseball’s Greatest Games: 2011 World Series Game 6 Blu-ray Review – Blu

Aspect Ratio: 1:78:1 Video Codec: AVC/MPEG-4 Resolution: 1080p/24 (23.976Hz) Audio Codec: English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Subtitles: None Region: A (B? C?) Rating: Unrated Discs: 2 (1 x Blu-ray + 1 x DVD) Run Time: 248 Mins. Studio: A+E Networks Home Entertainment Blu-ray Release Date: April 17th, 2012 List Price: $24.98 Purchase Baseball’s Greatest Games on Blu-ray at CD Universe Shop for more Blu-ray titles at Amazon.com Overall The Film Video Quality Audio Quality Supplemental Materials Click thumbnails for high-resolution Continue reading >>>

CM, BLS, and BLA Athletes Earn Globe Winter All-Scholastics Honors

  Editor's note: The following is an edited press release sent to West Roxbury Patch.com. The Boston Globe announced its annual winter High School All-Scholastic winners, recognizing 188 student-athletes as Boston Globe All-Scholastics, with 59 hailing from the Greater Boston area. The Boston Globe All-Scholastic athletes are chosen for each of the three high school sports seasons – fall, winter and spring. The winter sports include boys’ and girls’ basketball, ice hockey, indoor track, gymnastics, swimming, skiing, and boys’ wrestling. All All-Scholastics are selected by members Continue reading >>>

The Touch Chooses a Contest Winner

Boston, MA, April 01, 2012 --(PR.com)-- It was time for a change in early 2012 when The Touch, a jewelry design company in the Greater Boston Area decided to hold a contest. One of their most popular lines, interchangeable bracelets, was the center of a fan driven challenge. The bracelets are handcrafted in a way that you can change the top easily and often. Touch customers can recognize their designs instantly, but the collection’s name was not as familiar. The bracelets were referred to by all different names and descriptions, sometimes making it difficult to be sure of what the customer was Continue reading >>>

The Greater Boston Comedy Relay fights cancer through laughter on April 11

They say that laughter is the best medicine - and the folks behind the Greater Boston Comedy Relay are counting on that as they kick off their 2012 season with a very special open-mic comedy contest on April 11 at Tavern at the End of the World  in Charlestown, MA. Since 2009, the Greater Boston Comedy Relay has held its annual series of live comedy shows which have raised funds and awareness for the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life program in New England. Partnering with well-established venues such as Nick's Comedy Stop, Dick's Beantown Comedy Vault, and Mottley's Comedy Club, Continue reading >>>

Somerville organization seeking nominees for awards benefit

Actor Leonard Nimoy and Sir Winston Churchill didn’t know each other, but both were connected to a Boston-area children’s non-profit that has been doing work among immigrant families for more than a century. The Elizabeth Peabody House, which Nimoy attended and Churchill donated money to, is asking the public’s help in submitting the names of individuals who have done outstanding work among children and immigrant families in Greater Boston over the last year. “We are looking to find the inspiring stories of four local champions of children and immigrant families, and give credit where Continue reading >>>