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Maurice Lerner, who played minor league baseball for a decade after being a star player at Brookline High School, later became a hit man for the Mafia.
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Brookline big-league prospect was recruited as hitman for Fidel Castro

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The FBI took this surveillance photograph of Angelo Mercurio (right), with Raymond Patriarca, Jr. arriving at a Mafia induction ceremony in Medford in 1989 that it recorded.
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First-ever recorded Mafia induction ceremony occurred in Medford

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Joseph “The Animal” Barboza went from being a Mafia hitman to the first person in the witness protection program, but his former associates eventually tracked him down and killed him.
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Witness protection program didn’t save Joseph ‘The Animal’ Barboza

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