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Then & Now: Logan Field, Mill Street, Worcester

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By Mike Elfland Verified
| The Gardner News Verified
Updated Aug. 3, 2026, 6:16 a.m. ET Nearly a century ago, a new playground at Mill and Fowler streets became a lasting tribute to James Logan, the mayor of Worcester from 1908 to 1911. The city Parks and Recreation Department, in what it termed an offer of condolence, voted in January 1930 to name the playground after Logan, who died a month earlier. He had been a parks commissioner.
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Then & Now: Logan Field, Mill Street, Worcester

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By Mike Elfland Verified
| The Gardner News Verified
Aug. 3, 2026, 5:02 a.m. ET Nearly a century ago, a new playground at Mill and Fowler streets became a lasting tribute to James Logan, the mayor of Worcester from 1908 to 1911. The city Parks and Recreation Department, in what it termed an offer of condolence, voted in January 1930 to name the playground after Logan, who died a month earlier. He had been a parks commissioner.
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Then & Now: Do you know where this is?

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By Mike Elfland Verified
| The Gardner News Verified
Mike Elfland Worcester Telegram & Gazette Aug. 2, 2026, 5:03 a.m. ET Worcester is dotted with baseball fields, some old enough to have been the stage for neighborhood pickup games, when neighborhood pickup games were a summer sure thing. This week's Then photo shows a city ballfield in July 1941. The spot still holds a ballfield, although the diamond configuration has changed over the years. The basepaths are significantly wider and the mound more of a circle and better groomed.
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