Ace Boulanger had what Dick Reynolds of the Providence Journal-Bulletin described as “a dazzling schoolboy career.”

The second baseman on Warren High’s Class C and State Baseball Champions in 1945, he then served as the leading hurler on the school’s 1946 and 1947 title squads.  Following in the footsteps of his fellow Hall of Famer Roger Higgins (who was the first team All State hurler in 1944 and 1945), Ace was named the first team All State pitcher in both 1946 and 1947.  In the process he and his teammates won the Class C Championship (twice), the Rhode Championship of 1946, and the State Runner-Up designation in 1947.

Ace was the starting pitcher on Warren’s American Legion Baseball State Runner-Up in 1946 and a member of the Warren Twilight League Champions Knights of Columbus the following year.

In 1948 he pulled off a baseball trifecta.  The Providence Journal-Bulletin All Stars played a Brooklyn team that featured future major leaguer Billy Loes; Ace gave up only one run in six innings, and that run scored only because the center fielder slipped and turned a single into a triple. 

In the Warren Twilight League he was the All Star pitcher and a member of the championship Merchants.  And he led Warren’s Standard Pharmacy to a near-championship in the Providence Amateur League.

Ace played in the Warren versus Bristol Baseball Little World Series from 1946 to the final year of 1949.  He was the opening game winning pitcher in Warren’s 1947 three-game sweep of our neighbors.  He later pitched in the Mexican, Texas, and Canadian Border Leagues.

In football he starred as both a runner and passer for the 1947 Warren Townies who won or tied six of seven games.  And much later he served as the coach of the 1978 Youth Football PeeWees who captured the state’s Eastern Division Championship.

Picture from Hall of Fame archives (1946 American Legion Baseball team)       

Picture from Hall of Fame archives (1947 Warren Townies Football team)