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26-576: The Silver Knights are one of the seven FCBL teams playing in a stadium that used to host professional baseball. The Silver Knights have won the FCBL Championship in six of the league's fourteen years of existence. They are the only remaining member of the original four FCBL teams. The Silver Knights were a charter team of the FCBL, as Drew Weber, former owner of the Lowell Spinners, wanted to also operate

52-423: A construction permit from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to build a new three- tower array west of the old location. Instead of using the same directional pattern full-time, there would be different directional patterns for day and night. In July 2020, the station put an FM translator on the air at 95.3 MHz. WSMN airs Nashua This Morning with George Russell during morning drive time , with

78-530: A non-directional antenna at all times. Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator W237FA at 95.3 MHz . WSMN first signed on March 9, 1958. The first voice heard was that of Manchester, New Hampshire , native Frank G. Teas who spent the next 44 years with the station until he retired in December 2002. The original owner was the Merrimack Valley Broadcasting System. It sold

104-605: A 6-5 victory. The rubber game, played in Vermont, was back-and-forth; Boston College's Kyle Wolff hit a two-run home run in the top of the ninth and the Knights won, 6-5. Amherst's Jack McDermott was the post-season MVP, hitting .400 with 3 HRs and 9 RBI. Single season Career New England Collegiate Baseball League Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include

130-516: A former General Manager of the Bristol Blues, was recruited as the new GM in Nashua. Manager B.J. Neverett took advantage of a liberalized FCBL rule allowing up to 5 "commits" (high-school graduates intending to play college baseball in the coming year), resulting in a distinctly younger team. A month into the season, the club signed power hitters who had excelled on nearby teams in the previous season, but

156-607: A franchise in the New England Collegiate Baseball League . When this was not feasible, Weber and others created the FCBL. Chris Hall, who had been the General Manager of professional and collegiate teams in Nashua, became the league's commissioner. The name Knights was chosen over three other club nominations by a vote of Nashua grade-school students. The club modified the winner to "Silver Knights" to avoid conflict with an existing amateur baseball team in

182-419: A news/talk format in early 2006. It began featuring programing from Talk Radio Network and Westwood One . Absolute Broadcasting sold WSMN to Bartis and Russell Broadcasting LLC for $ 200,000. The sale took effect on March 16, 2017. The proprietors are George Russell and Bob Bartis, who had both hosted shows on WSMN. They promised "more local programming and a refocus on the community." WSMN formerly held

208-484: A package. The FCBL returned to the 2014 format, in which only 6 of the 10 teams qualified for the post-season. B.J. Neverett moved out of the front office and back to the field as the team's manager and took the franchise to the FCBL championship. The Silver Knights dominated the East Division early, but eventually fell 2½ games behind Seacoast for the division title with a regular-season record of 34–21. This earned them

234-492: The Pittsfield Suns , which won the fourth seed and the right to host the one-game play-in game against Nashua on August 8 through the tie-breaker, a superior record against the other playoff teams. Fifth-seeded Nashua won the play-in game and swept the semifinals. The other finalist was the sixth-seeded Worcester Bravehearts , as all six playoff games in the first two rounds went to the lower-seeded team. Nashua elected to start

260-508: The 10 teams into the post-season but making the first two rounds a single game. The Silver Knights finished with a regular-season record of 28-28, fourth in the dominant East Division. They won the first-round playoff game at North Shore, but lost the second-round game the next day at Bristol. After the season, Drew Weber announced his intention to sell both the Silver Knights and the Spinners as

286-510: The MVP trophy. The Silver Knights won their sixth championship in 2022, recovering from a 4-12 start to earn the third seed in the playoffs. In the first round, Nashua swept the New Britain Bees. In the final series, the Knights faced the reigning FCBL champion Vermont Lake Monsters. Vermont hosted the opening game and won, 12-0. In Game Two in Nashua, the Knights overcame a 4-0 deficit and achieved

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312-494: The Spinners and took the Silver Knights off the market. Neverett's brother Tim became a radio broadcaster for the Boston Red Sox , and Silver Knights results were occasionally mentioned during those broadcasts. Tim's son Matt Neverett was one of the announcers of Silver Knights games on WSMN radio. The Silver Nights were one of several teams playing around the .500 mark. They finished the season at .491, an identical record to

338-515: The championship series. Ted Currle was hired as their field manager, with Jeff Dupont and Kyle Jackson assisting as coaches. Currle had managed the Martha's Vineyard Sharks in 2011 and was an assistant coach for the Brockton Rox in 2012 and 2013. The team spent most of the season around .500 and was one of four teams with similar records headed for the one-game play-in to the post-season. On August 8,

364-654: The city. In March 2019 the team was sold to John Creedon Jr, owner of the Worcester Bravehearts. Mike Chambers was the first field manager, with B.J. Neverett and Tom Bowles assisting as coaches. The Silver Knights finished first in the regular season, with a 27–16 record. They defeated the Torrington Titans (25-17) in a best-of-three championship series. The Silver Knights drew an average of 869 spectators per game, far above initial expectations of 300-500 fans. The league expanded from four to nine teams. Neverett

390-672: The details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 763626647 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:34:35 GMT WSMN WSMN (1590 AM ) is a commercial radio station broadcasting a talk radio format . It is licensed to Nashua, New Hampshire , and serves the Merrimack Valley . Its owners since March 2017 are on-air personalities George Russell and Bob Bartis. WSMN has some local talk shows and also features paid brokered programming . WSMN transmits with 770 watts daytime, 58 watts nighttime. It uses

416-546: The last day of the regular season, Nashua lost the right to host this play-in game, finishing the regular season at 28–26. Traveling to Torrington, Connecticut the next day, Nashua lost the play-in game in 11 innings. With the replacement of the Old Orchard Beach franchise by the Bristol Blues , Nashua moved to the East Division, joining in-state rival Seacoast Mavericks. The FCBL expanded the playoff format, allowing 8 of

442-512: The last of the four charter teams. Owner Drew Weber sold a minority stake to local businessmen and fired Muntean, appointing as co-General Managers team accountant Victoria Cookson and former mayoral candidate Michael Broderick. However, in March, Weber and the co-owners announced the sale of the club to John Creedon Jr., the owner of the Worcester Bravehearts. Creedon named Dave Pahucki the general manager in place of Weber's selections. The Futures League

468-556: The results were mixed. The league dropped from 9 to 7 teams, but the playoff rules continued to extend to the best 6. Nashua dropped out of contention, then surged in the last week to become the fifth seed. It lost the play-in game at Brockton. The FCBL started 2019 as a seven-team league again, as a new Westfield franchise balanced the defection of Martha's Vineyard to the NECBL . As the Seacoast Mavericks remained on hiatus, Nashua became

494-420: The right to host the play-in game with Torrington, but the Silver Knights were seeded lower than their subsequent two opponents, each of which elected to start its best-of-three series at Nashua. Seacoast took the semifinal series to a full three games, each won by the visiting team. The Silver Knights won both games of the championship series against Worcester, now coached by J.P. Pyne. Weber succeeded in selling

520-505: The series at Worcester and won away and at home, repeating on August 12 as FCBL Champions. Cam Cook won the regular season batting title with an average of .397, he also broke the single season record for hits with 81. Ryan Sullivan won the MVP award for the Championship series. In the off-season, both General Manager Ronnie Wallace and Assistant GM Cheryl Lindner resigned within days of one another to take jobs outside baseball. Rick Muntean,

546-579: The station only one year later, to 1590 Broadcasting Corporation. For most of its early years, WSMN had a middle-of-the-road format, mixed in with talk. This format remained in place through the decade. The organization also published an advertiser-supported, free tabloid called the 1590 Broadcaster. During the mid-1990s, WSMN attempted a country music format. But country on AM radio became less viable after Boston country station WKLB-FM moved from 96.9 FM (now WBQT ) to 99.5 FM (now WCRB ). WSMN switched to adult standards in December 1997. This

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572-572: The station's operations. WSMN was forced off the air February 1, 2005, after losing the lease to its transmitter and studio site on West Hollis Street ( Route 111 ). The license was sold to Absolute Broadcasting, owner of WSNH (900; now WGHM ) that July. WSMN returned to the air in October from the WSNH tower, running a low-power special temporary authority signal. It initially simulcast WSNH's ESPN Radio programming. The station began shifting back to

598-556: Was one of the few leagues to play in the COVID-19 stricken summer. Playing a shortened season of 39 games, the Silver Knights went 23–16, finishing in 2nd place, ½ game behind the Worcester Bravehearts. The Silver Knights squared off against the Bravehearts in the championship for the third time in league history. After dropping game 1, the Silver Knights won games 2 and 3 to win their league leading 5th FCBL championship. Kyle Bouchard took home

624-440: Was promoted to field manager, with Bowles and J.P. Pyne assisting as coaches. The Silver Knights dominated the regular season with a 39–13 record. Then they swept through the Brockton Rox and North Shore Navigators to win their second consecutive FCBL Championship. PerfectGame.org named them the 26th best team in all of collegiate summer league baseball. Neverett was promoted to the front office as VP of Player Development. Pyne

650-453: Was promoted to field manager, with Bowles assisting as pitching coach. The regular-season record of 34-19 was one game behind the Martha's Vineyard Sharks (35-18). Both teams thus earned a bye from the "one-game play-in" instituted that year for the next-best four teams, and both teams won their best-of-three semifinal series in two games. But Martha's Vineyard, which had won 6 of the 7 regular-season contests against Nashua, won both games of

676-455: Was short lived; in March 1998, the station changed to news/talk, though some timeslots were temporarily filled with adult contemporary music for a time. Initially locally oriented, in June WSMN began adding nationally-produced programming, including Talk America shows and business news from Bloomberg Radio . Two years later, Tom O'Brien signed a local marketing agreement (LMA) to take over

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