Community Corner
Fifteenth Week - Monday's "Medfield Historical Minute"
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis.
A Medfield Historical Minute...
This "Medfield Historical Minute" is brought to you by town historian Richard DeSorgher.
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis. A different "Medfield Historical Minute" will appear each day during the Crisis.
"Starting after WWII and up until 1952 when the Boston Braves National League baseball team left Boston for Milwaukee, Joe Marcionette (owner of the Jenney Gas Station, now site of Middlesex Savings Bank, and Medfield selectman) sponsored a “Jimmy Day” each fall to help raise funds for the Jimmy Fund. Using the front of Town Hall, townspeople donated saleable goods which were then sold in “yard sale style “with the profits going to the Jimmy Fund. Local Little League players, dressed in their uniforms, “passed the hat” throughout the day for denotations. Usually a player from the Boston Braves would come out for the event and sign autographs on the steps of Town Hall."
