The first TT races in New Hampshire occur in Keene, New Hampshire.
Held at Keene's Safford Park on the same weekend as the 1935 Keene AMA Gypsy Tour, the first race was a 200-miler sponsored by the NEMDA and by Fritzie's Roamers Motorcycle Club. Keene was such a success it was host to the 1936 200-mile race as well.
Fritzie Baer started Fritzie's Roamers Motorcycle Club in 1933 in Springfield, Massachusetts. If ever any single individual did everything that could be done in motorcycling, it was Baer. He was a racer, a dealer, a club president, a race promoter, an announcer, a sponsor, a mechanic, an AMA official and a tireless promoter of motorcycling in New England.
Safford Park is now known as the Cheshire Fair Grounds. Twice a year, May and October, there is a swap meet on the grounds. At one time it was the swap meet in New Hampshire, and one of the best on the East Coast. A beer-swillin', deal-grabbin', good time.
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