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Historian lives on hallowed sports ground

February 17, 2011

By Staff Reporter

His curiosity led him to an internet search in which he found an 1920s article from the Long Island Star that told the story of the leveling of the sports club’s facilities and the plans to build an apartment complex on the site. It would retain the old name, Celtic Park.
An attached note from the current president of Greater Astoria Historical Association asked for information about the whereabouts of the many trophies that the club had won over the years. They’d been missing for decades.
Just a few weeks later, McGowan was at an event with his fianc

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