Northeastern University Athletics

Joseph F. Lynch was elected to the Hall of Fame his accomplishments in the sport of baseball.

Lynch was an outstanding first baseman/centerfielder under Coach Herb Gallagher in the post war years, and went on to play professionally with the Boston Red Sox minor league affiliates. As a superb bat and glove man for the Huskies, Lynch hit over .350 in two varsity season (1946, '47) and was a major factor in keeping the Huskies competitive in New England during a sparse manpower era of baseball at Huntington Field. Lynch enrolled at Northeastern as a 16-year old phenom. He hit with power and ran the bases and fielded impeccably for the freshman team in 1942 before a war-time hitch in the United States Navy postponed his amateur diamond days. He returned from three years of service to star on the 1946 and '47 baseball squads. He hit a lofty .362 in '46 and .347 a year later. Lynch, a Husky captain in 1947, opted to bypass his third and final year of varsity eligibility to sign a professional contract with the Red Sox in the spring of 1947.

But before leaving Northeastern, he proved his worth as a Husky. There would be game winning heroics against Boston College two seasons in a row. Lynch won the 1946 tilt by rapping a basehit in the 10th inning, and in 1947, the Hounds nipped the Eagles again, 9-8. In that thriller, Lynch drilled a monstrous, base-clearing triple for the game-winning RBI's in the 10th.

After hanging up the spikes, Lynch found little trouble securing employment. As a Certified Public Accountant, Lynch saw duty with the IRS as a Special Agent and with the Boston Security and Exchange Commission, until joining the firm he would go on to own, Sacks & Lynch.