Fishing boats tied up in Maine s Perkins Cove. Elena Elisseeva/Shutterstock photo
Maine’s Perkins Cove is known for any number of things, bluefin tuna fishing in particular. In the spring, though, when baseball gets under way, I am reminded that this small basin of just a few acres was home port to two fishermen who had played professional ball.
Both were pitchers in the so-called golden age of the game, between 1920 and 1960, and though neither achieved star status at the Major League level, both are in the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame.
It was my good fortune to know them, though I knew them as fishermen before learning they were ballplayers.
There’s an influx of new high school coaches this spring
With the 2020 season wiped out, many coaches in southern Maine have been waiting more than a year to get going.
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Yarmouth s new boys lacrosse coach, Jon Miller, gives instructions to Ollie Prinn during practice on Thursday. Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer
Yarmouth High boys’ lacrosse coach Jon Miller admits he was getting anxious before the Clippers’ first practice on Monday.
After all, it had been more than a year since Miller had been hired as the new varsity coach, and he still hadn’t been with his team in person. He was supposed to take over for David Pearl and try to guide Yarmouth to a second consecutive Class B championship. Instead, the coronavirus pandemic wiped out the 2020 spring season. So Miller, a former standout player at Yarmouth (2004 graduate) and an assistant coach since 2015, was stuck in neutral.