But when the National League tried to fight the American League by fronting a bogus third league that they called the American Association with a franchise in Boston, Johnson decided to take off the gloves. And in March of 1901, a groundbreaking ceremony was held on a site on Columbus Avenue, very close to today's Rugles Orange Line stop for a new ballpark, literally within a home run of the South End grounds where the Nationals played. It costs a whole $35,000 for the brand spanking new Huntington Avenue grounds. It was state-of-the-art, featuring showers and a separate locker room for visiting teams. Now, Johnson knew that for his new league to survive, certain cities had to be assured of winning clubs. And since since Boston was home to the Royal Routers and was a huge baseball town, Johnson the Autocrat made sure that as American League teams raided the National League that certain players would go to certain towns and that's how Boston Nationals third baseman Jimmy Collins was uh ended up being basically handed to the Boston Red Sox.
Um, as an engineer, I like to think it has something to do with uh an order of cubes, numbers, but who who the heck knows? Somebody picked 128. And there you go. So, let's say that you lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts in the late 1920s or the 1930s and you wanted to go to the Southshore, but you wanted to avoid all that traffic in Boston. Well, what we did was we put together kind of a virtual ride as one would take back in that era. From Gloucester, you would have taken Essex Avenue into Essex, following a bunch of local streets through Hamilton, Winnham, and then into Beverly on Essex Street. And Essex Street took you south here into downtown Beverly, where it met Cabbage Street just south of St. Mary's Church, which you can see on the right side of the street. Across the Essex Bridge into Salem, shown here, we hook a right into Boston Street, after which we cross through Peody into neighboring Lynfield.
And that A number, you're able to check online your uh court dates, uh what's happening with your case. You can have an app on your phone, which I'm going to show you in a second, that has all that information, and you will get notified if anything changes with your case. Uh there's a lot of people that they will check and they're like, "Oh, my court date is only 2027." So, they don't mind um they don't care about checking it every week. And we see court dates changing from 2027 to now. And if you miss the court date aid, that can be very very bad complication on your immigration case. Um, so avoiding scams. Again, we see people hiring folks out of Florida and they do everything online. They make the payments and they never actually submit any documentation. Um, we've seen quite a bit of agencies, sorry, I'll slow down.
Um and I know people are on their computers a lot of times looking at the handouts that are there. You're looking at the Google Docs. That's fine. Um, the phones, like I said, I was an administrator. I know emergencies come up, you have to check throughout the day. I'm aware of that. Um, but I don't think you need to be on your phones majority of the time. I haven't walked behind. Maybe I should start doing that. But again, I'm a professional. I respect you as being professionals. I don't think I have to walk on the outside to see what's on your screen. I trust you. I've trusted you. But maybe that's what I should have done and I apologize for not doing that. Um, I'm going to do better today today. I hope I'm going to try. Call me out. It won't hurt my feelings one bit, but I expect you to do better today, too, especially because your peers have um made comments about that.
Um, go ahead. Well, we competed at NDTC, which is the national dance team championship under UDA. Uh we won the championship title in small varsity palm and then we won the second place national title for varsity game day and then we got third place in varsity jazz at nationals and you were and statewise and then statewise we won state in varsity palm we won state in game day dance and then we are um state runner up in jazz. Wow. Now, I'm going to pass the microphone down. Would you guys introduce yourself, first and last name, and what grade you're in? Okay. All right. I'll start with you. I'm Eliza Garner and I'm a junior. I'm Ellie Duffin and I'm a sophomore. I'm Delaney Taylor and I'm a junior. I'm Macy Pullman and I'm a sophomore. I'm Ameilia Bonham and I'm a sophomore. I'm Brighton Nelson and I'm a junior.
They also got this guy. He is the answer to a trick trivia question. Who is the only pitcher to have won over 500 games in his career and not win a Sai Young award? And the answer is Sai Young, who by 1901 had already won 285 games when he joined the Americans. That's the Boston American League franchise. and he was already the ripe old age of 33. When he got here, he won 192 games for Boston in the next eight seasons, which I coincidentally was as many as a certain other pitcher who a certain general manager said was too old, a guy named Roger Clemens. Sai Young would pitch the first game at the Huntington Avenue grounds against the Philadelphia Athletics, which was won by Boston 12-4. Now, Boston was a pretty good team. They would finish their inaugural season four games behind the pennant Chicago White Socks, but with many more paying customers than Boston's National League team.
There, the old route 128 used Salem Street to swing westward. This is Salem Street, just as it crossed Route One in Lynfield by the old Lynfield Firehouse. Next door to the firehouse over on the right side, take a look. That's E Harvey's and it's a classic example of a business that recognized where the money was going. Originally, they were a meat and produce market, but the owner installed gas pumps to handle the increasing traffic now flowing along the old Route 128 through Wakefield into Stonem via Elm Street. Drivers would then use Route 28, that's Main Street, for a few blocks before turning west onto Montville Avenue, which carried them through Wuburn Center. Then into the four corner section of Wuburn on Lexington Street, right in front of the old Mayflower Furniture, whose sign read 25 years without a sale. and then behind Oor's service station which opened in 1934 and was open until just a few years earlier.
We see quite a bit of agencies that are um putting their personal information on the forms. So, the client doesn't have any access at all to their immigration case. And when they are signing as an attorney, which they're really not, they are signing as a client themselves. So, they're creating a lot of problems and jeopardizing the client's case. And there is a website. I don't know why it's showing like that, but you can actually go online and check if someone is in fact an attorney. You get their full name. You put it in. If it's in Massachusetts, you're going to look for the Massachusetts website for the attorneys here. If it's in another state, just look on another state and put that name to make sure that they are licensed because a lot of times you see people just saying they are attorneys. Sometimes they were in another country, another life, but not here.
Yes. Speak to that, too. So like I appreciate you acknowledging like maybe you could have done some things but also we are professionals. So if you're seeing that behavior, it's also on all of us to remind people of the norms. It's not just on you. So like if you're writing those comments and you haven't proposed or brought everybody back to the norms, it's on you as well. Thank you. It also feels like there's a lot of policing going on of other people. Never mind. Let me stop. Let me stop. Let me stop. Never mind. Okay. Well, let's just do our best today and let's represent the our groups that we are here to represent. And I'm sure it's going to be a successful day. I'm excited about it. And I'll tell you what, this is later in the PowerPoint, but I'm going to share it now.
I'm Ellie Zaha Harris and I'm a junior. I'm Milan Padulla and I'm a I'm Chloe Bailey and I'm a sophomore. I'm Delilah Hess and I'm a sophomore. I'm Satie Price and I'm a junior. I'm Breen Sparks and I'm a sophomore. Give him a hand. Congratulations to Highland High Palm. Now on to cheer. James, you want to rattle off the things you guys have done and let these folks introduce themselves? Sure. So, this season we were really fortunate to have a rather successful season. We went undefeated throughout our regular season. Um, we and we finished in state runnerup for our traditional routine by less than a tenth of a point. Um, we ended up winning game day state and we were runner-ups when it came to all girls stunt as well. going to Florida for our nationals which which is UCA nationals for the Universal Cheerleaders Association.
And get this Red Sox fans, every regular position player stole at least 20 bases. In 1903, Sai Young threw seven of the league's 97 shutouts, often on two days rest. In 342 innings, I'm going to say that number again. 342 innings. He walked only 37 batters. And don't forget, this was before the DH, so he had to hit, too. The Red Sox and Sai Young treated Boston to the kind of season fans would later call typical, a strong start and a midsummer fold. Only in 1903, they recovered and went on their way to their first pennant. But Ban Johnson had created such a strong league that to keep him from rating every good player they had left, the National League agreed to treat the American League as an equal. So, the owner of the first place National League team in Pittsburgh and the First Place American League team here in Boston both saw an opportunity to make a few more dollars and they arranged to meet in a best of nine contest.
Now we turn south onto Lexington Street which became Wuberin Street once the road passed into Lexington. Then we go through the heart of downtown Lexington using this threeb block stretch of Mass A before turning south down Waltham Street. Now, since most drivers were using the old 128 as a bypasser on Boston, merchants did not, except for restaurant tours and gas station owners, derive many benefits from the designation. In fact, the crush of traffic and the difficulty locals had in getting to their own town centers kept many away, especially on weekends and holidays. Now the old route 128 snaked its way through the center of Walam down a quarter mile stretch of the heavily congested Main Street after which it turned on to Newton Street where it crossed the Charles River on this 19th century Stone Arch bridge. Note the gas station across the bridge. Now old route 128 continues with the turn onto High Street after which we enter Newton through Newton into dem denim needed excuse me.
Um, and if you're not able to get your documents from this person that you paid uh at the office, we do offer this service is the FOYA um request, which is the Freedom of Information Act. Everyone has access to their immigration case. You can order that online yourself. Um, if it's a very large immigration case, it's going to cost a little bit. It's not much at all. And it takes about the last ones we uh filed it took about a month to arrive. And there has all the communication from immigration um that they sent. It has the case that was sent to them. If you apply for asylum, you don't know what's in your application. There you will have a chance to see what was written on it, the information they placed. And with the Hoya, you can call immigration and you can get more information about your case.
So, this is my third year doing this. I had a little bit of training from the previous facilitator and one of the questions I asked him as I was learning the IBN process was how many issues do you permit? Remember with IBN we start with our forming our issues. He said um five to seven. Well, we had way more than five to seven. Um I think we had 13. I mean, I'd have to look at my numbers. I have them written down. With the 13 came 31 options. That's a lot to manage. And as I was thinking, especially after the last meeting and I went back and I was looking at my notes from him again, um, you know, 31 options is a lot to keep track of. And thanks to Dorothy from the last meeting, she caught our mistake. Um, but on the other hand, we did 13 even though he did five to seven.
Um we were super fortunate enough to get sixth in Super Game Day and we also were the highest Arizona traditional score in the medium varsity division. Wow. And these are my captains. I'm Emerson Bneer and I'm a senior. I'm Liberty Wilkins. I'm a senior. My name is Reese Turner and I'm also a senior. Ladies and gentlemen, Highland High Palm and Cheer. Way to go. Congratulations. If you guys Now just turn around this side and then walk down that way, shake hands, and then come back and then we'll take a picture with everyone. [Music] Well done. Thank you. Y time. So, some of you are probably going to have to get on a knee. You guys know how to do this. We'll fill in behind you. See? Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. Middle row down on your knees. There you go. Look at that. Well done. Now, moving on from palm and cheer, we're going to do a little wrestling.
test. The series and Boston was a wild success. By the third game, grandstand seats that normally went for a buck sold for a whole $5 with box seats going for as high as $10. Of course, no fans could match the enthusiasm of the Royal Rooters who followed the Americans who had won that third a third game back to Pittsburgh where they banged drums and generally harassed Pittsburgh's players. I'm not saying they were the reason, but the following spring behind solid pitching from Sai Young, Boston claimed the first World Series. And that spring in 1904, they raised their first championship banner. But despite his World Series win, Boston Americans owner Henry Calia was tired of the beatings and secondguing by the press and the fans. And by the way, this was long before Sports Talk Radio. And he wanted out. Now, John I. Taylor, the son of Boston Globe owner Charles Taylor, was bought the team by his father to run.
We use a number of local streets before we reach the Highland Avenue interchange. One of the first grade separated limited access interchanges built here in the state. Constructed in 1931, it accommodated one of the many tweaks the old DPW made as they tried to squeeze more and more traffic around 128. Now underneath the underpass, we go on Greenale Avenue, which took over circumferential duties into Denim. Greenale crosses High Street, also root known as Route 109, sometime in the late 1920s in this picture. And for the next two miles, Route 128 meanders into Westwood, then returns back to Denim before dropping south again into Westwood, and then enters neighboring Canton. Once it crossed into Canton, old 128 turns onto Blue Hill River Road, which as it crosses eastward through the Blue Hill Reservation, skirts the borders of Milton, Quinsey, and Randolph. And here, where Blue Hill River Road intersects with Route 28, is one of the country's first franchised Howard Johnson's.
And I'm going to give you just an example that happened very recently. Um, this lady filed, they are withholding for documentations. And when we call integration, immigration says they can't find anything. They don't see her in the system. So, we filed a foyer request. And when that came in, the assignment application had the information all switched. The personal information had the client's name but didn't have the email, didn't have the phone number, the address, everything she was using to uh verify her identity with immigration was not correct. Um they said they were attorneys, they were not. They signed the client was submitting the application and they just made up a bunch of stories on that application. Um so it's very very serious. that's not something that can be fixed um easily. So, please be in charge of your immigration documents. Um don't just trust anybody with it.
That was his way and I respect that. But then on the other hand, I think it's important for everyone's voice to be heard. So yes, it might have extended our IBN time, but I think we're making people happy that we're addressing really the results from that survey that Kelly developed and um submitted. So, it's messy when you have 31 options. I can tell you that it's very messy, but it's okay. It's okay. I think it's okay. Um, so you need to be proud of yourself that you went through all this uh difficult work to get to where we are today. Um, and so we'll see what the morning I think this morning we will hopefully be mostly finished with our recommendations. Okay, question three. Would you like to be a member of IBN next year? Six members answered this question. Uh, two definitely said yes.
All right, Camp Overdie. Coach Bishop, come on up and bring your bring your squad with you. [Applause] We got to run all split up. That's all right. Campovery boys division 2, they were state runnerups. Give them a hand. And girls, division two, do Oh, Bella's not here. We do have Bella in the back. And Coach Norton is over here. Coach Norton and Bella, come on up. [Applause] All right, Coach Norton, I'm going to let you go first. Absolutely. You We have Bella here. Why is Bella here? Oh, I don't need that. So, Bella Bella is here. Yeah, you do. For the record, I got lost. There we go. So, so for for the record, um so the girls ended up winning the sectionals uh to go on to state. um all five tournaments in Arizona, we took first, took third in New Mexico, all by the leadership of this young lady here.