Pepsi was the last team to win the Saco Valley Softball League in North Conway’s Schouler Park in 2001. Members of that team were (back row, from left) Skip Smith, Timmy Vacchiano, Mark Porter, Ray Gilmore, Rick Ellsmore, Steve Larson and Phil Haynes; (front, from left) Lloyd Jones, Peter Ames, Mike Clemons, Larry Day and John Eastman. (COURTESY PHOTO)
Pepsi was the last team to win the Saco Valley Softball League in North Conway’s Schouler Park in 2001. Members of that team were (back row, from left) Skip Smith, Timmy Vacchiano, Mark Porter, Ray Gilmore, Rick Ellsmore, Steve Larson and Phil Haynes; (front, from left) Lloyd Jones, Peter Ames, Mike Clemons, Larry Day and John Eastman. (COURTESY PHOTO)
CONWAY — “The Saco Valley Softball League was one of the best — for my money, it was the best — leagues in the country. The level of softball played in the park nightly was unmatched.”
That’s how David “Doc” Walker described one of the Mount Washington Valley’s favorite summer pastimes — the Saco Valley Softball League, which would have turned 65 this year.
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