Reading 'Swamp Boy' McCafferty's Named Gatorade Massachusetts Baseball Player Of The Year

CBS Boston

June 16, 2025

A junior at Austin Prep in Reading will be touring the country playing baseball, and he's hoping it will someday lead to Fenway Park.

A long line of D-1 college baseball players has emerged from a field in Reading, affectionately called "The Swamp."

"We refer to ourselves as the Swamp Boys, and that's a nod to the players that came before this current generation who played down here when it was a swamp," said Austin Prep Baseball Coach JP Pollard

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