What started as a bored teenager's online experiment during the pandemic has turned into a real-life change on MBTA bus routes in the Boston area.

Brendan Libby, now a senior at Brookline High School, said he often passed a small, unnamed road tucked behind a Chestnut Hill apartment complex. In 2021, while bored during the pandemic, the then-14-year-old discovered he could submit edits or suggest names through Google Maps.

"Without thinking, I went in, tried to change it to something," he said.

Named after Boston Braves player

A history and baseball buff, Libby decided to give that unnamed street a name, Maranville Street, after Walter "Rabbit" Maranville , the Springfield-born Baseball Hall of Famer who helped the Boston Braves win the 1914 World Series.

"He was kind of an unknown

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