Seven Martha’s Vineyard Sharks will represent the Island Sunday as the NECBL All-Star game arrives on the Vineyard for the first time in league history.
The New England Collegiate Baseball League is moving forward with preparations for opening day on June 3, which means the Shark Tank could once again play host to the popular summer baseball league.
This is the unusual story of the unlikely relationship between the families of Vineyard photographer Peter Simon, his rock ’n’ roll star sister, Carly, and baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson.
The tale begins in 1955, when the fleet-footed Mr. Robinson — the first African-American Major League baseball player in history — was leading the Brooklyn Dodgers to their first World Series title.
At 6 feet, 6 inches, and 230 pounds, Sharks pitcher and Oak Bluffs native James Sashin has quite an appetite. But parents Howie and Cheryll make sure that he never goes hungry.
