1939
BILL SAYLES   P

It is fitting that Bill Sayles started his big league career in Boston. The Sayles family had come full circle. He may not have realized it, but he was not the first of his family to ply his trade in Massachusetts. His ancestors landed on Boston’s shore before Boston was Boston. The Sayles family can trace their ancestry in America to John and Philippa Sayles, who left Sudbury, England, in 1625 or 1626 and settled in what was to become Charlestown, Massachusetts ...

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