By DAVID LISCIO
When Bob Dobias Jr. was just out of high school, he convinced his mother, Sharon, to drive from their Swampscott home to Maine and buy a weather-beaten Mako skiff. It was a strategic move, because his father, Bob Sr., was busy coaching Swampscott High School’s football team, so there was little chance of encountering resistance.
By DAVID LISCIO
A national initiative to transform abandoned railroads into public bicycle and walking trails is stirring controversy in at least two North Shore communities.
Lynnfield and Swampscott residents remain divided, but recent ballot votes in both communities favored trail construction and authorized partial funding.
By STEVE KRAUSE
He had been in a slump. Tony Conigliaro, the 22-year-old kid who, earlier in 1967, had become the youngest player in American League history to reach the 100-homer mark, was in a rut and hadn’t hit one out in 10 days.
Jim Quinlan, a former Saugus High player and coach, is now coaching at Bishop Fenwick.
By STEVE KRAUSE
He’s back. The bundle of energy with the high-pitched voice is pacing back and forth behind the Bishop Fenwick bench, spurring his hockey players into frantic action.
“Up … up … come up,” he screams at his forwards. One of them commits an infraction and ends up in the penalty box. He goes over to him, bends down, and you can hearing admonish the boy.
By JUSTIN BARRASSO
Tucked away on Newbury Street in Peabody, almost hidden among the multitude of spectacles on Route 1, is Bruce McCorry’s Martial Arts Academy. The building, covered by a simple red awning, comes alive upon entering the front door. Inside, McCorry teaches self-discipline, self-defense, and self-confidence.
By Steve Krause
According to Jay Sartori, baseball analytics has no hard and fast definition. It may not be a case of “if I told what I did, I’d have to kill you,” but it may be close.
“It’s not easy to do,” said Sartori. “Essentially, at its simplest level, what we’re doing is taking any and all information that we can get our hands on and, through the use of various tools—and a lot of them happen to be technical computer tools—we can improve our decision making.”
