The Holyoke Paperweights were a professional

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team based in

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, USA, that played in the now defunct

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to 1911, they were also known as the Papermakers. The team won the league pennant of the 1905 and 1907 seasons. The Paperweights and Papermakers were preceded by the 1884 Holyoke team of the

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and Holyoke clubs for "failure to pay their debts."Historic Narthampton

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