Board of Aldermen — 5/23/17 Page 2
Bedinger. Kyle was a young man from Nashua who spent most of his life one or other of the Nashua ball fields
as a little league player and all up through the ranks and then ultimately as a coach. Kyle suffered a very tragic
death and his parents, Paul and Patty Bedinger have mourned him in the year since his loss. | know it’s been
a very difficult year for them. Kyle died of a very rare illness caused by sepsis it seems like. In order to
commemorate Kyle’s dedication to the community and this very tragic loss, the Board of Public Works has
recommended that we name the field after Kyle, which | think of course is a very good thing to do and | know
we will do that on an unanimous basis. | believe the Bedingers are here, and they will probably want to
address us briefly. Again, a very tragic loss for our community, and | am glad we are able to recognize Kyle in
a way that is being proposed.
With that, Mr. President, that concludes my remark.
RESPONSE TO REMARKS OF THE MAYOR — None
President McCarthy
Before we move to the recognition period, | will ask Mr. Brown who wants to address the Board to please
come forward.
Mike Brown, 15 Cathedral Circle, Nashua.
| have been asked by the Bedingers to present on the behalf of them for Kyle’s recognition and dedication of
the field. The Bedinger Family, Paul, Patty and their daughter, Kate, who is here, and their daughter, Keegan,
who is in New York City tonight, have been a strength and inspiration to all of us in the past year after the
death of Kyle on May 10, 2016. | would also like to thank Rob Holmes of Shelly Street in Nashua who
originally presented the petition to name the field after Kyle and got the ball rolling. Unfortunately he is
traveling on business tonight as well.
The background, and I'll connect the dots that Mayor Donchess gave us. On May 10, 2016, Kyle passed away
in Mass General in Boston after a one-week illness that was ultimately defined as severe sepsis. For those of
you who don’t know about the disease sepsis it’s an overwhelming response by the body to infection which can
lead to tissue damage and in Kyle’s case organ failure as well as amputations and death. | won’t go into a lot
of details, but in 2016 there were 258,000 individuals that died of the disease which is more in one year than all
deaths combined of prostate cancer, breast cancer and AIDS.
At the time of Kyle’s death, he had been a long time resident of Nashua and was employed by Rapid
Manufacturing in Nashua. Amongst his many passions in life, Kyle was known for his love of baseball, his love
of the Boston Red Sox, as well as his beard. When he passed, a family member, one of Paul and Patty’s
nieces came up with a likeness and that likeness is the picture here of which you can see the baseball cap and
the beard and it’s a likeness that’s represented of Kyle. As a matter of fact, he was so well thought of there’s
actually an individual in attendance tonight that has the likeness tattooed on his shoulder.
| was fortunate to coach in Nashua Cal Ripken for 14 years of which 7 of those years | coached Kyle. His spirit
and passion were remarkable. In his playing career he started in 1994 and played at T-ball, then went on to
Rookies, then went on to the Minors, then went on to the Majors, then went on to a Nashua Cooperstown
team, then played Ray Oban, then played Pennichuck Junior High, then played Babe Ruth, then played at
Nashua High School. When he was done playing he gave back to the community by being an umpire from
2008 — 2010, in both Cal Ripken minor and major leagues, and then as a little league coach in 2012. All told,
his playing and coaching career in Nashua went from 1994 through 2012.
Kyle and | shared a common bond: baseball and birthdays. As a matter of fact, we share the same birthday
on June 15, and | happened to be in the room the day he was born on June 15. He is one of the few city kids
that can say | truly played for the Red Sox because he played for the Red Sox in Cal Ripken Nashua North,
which was the only major league team at the time that was called the Red Sox. It was while playing for the
Red Sox that he delivered my most favorite moment in 14 years of coaching. As a matter of fact, | had a
