SHERMAN TWP — The Mason County Eastern Athletic Boosters is hosting its 29th annual athletic booster fundraiser Saturday April, 27 at the Sherman Township Hall in Fountain, it will include
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.