Agganis (Harry) is born in Lynn.

The son of Greek immigrants, Harry Agganis attends Lynn Classical High School, where he is one of the greatest all-around schoolboy athletes in Boston area history. He plays football for Boston University beginning in 1949,* goes on to play baseball for the Boston Red Sox, even before graduation from college in 1954.* Agganis starts the next season hitting .313 for the Red Sox, then dies at Santa Maria Hospital in Cambridge from a cerebral pulmonary embolism on June 27, 1955. After a funeral at St. George Orthodox Church attended by thousands of mourners, he is buried in Lynn.