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The owners of the Portland Sea Dogs – Sally McNamara, left, and her brother, Bill Burke, center – are shown at Hadlock Field last summer with Geoff Iacuessa, the team’s president and general manager.
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Sea Dogs founder Dan Burke told his children not to blur the lines between business and family. Business is business. Family is family.
The daughter and youngest son of the man who brought professional baseball to Portland in 1994 may not have crossed that line as owners of the Sea Dogs, but in an awful year, they came awfully close.
In March 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was leading to shutdowns, Sally McNamara and Bill Burke quietly decided that the team’s employees – 19 full-time staffers and more than 200 people who work in game-day operations – would not miss a paycheck if any of the home games couldn’t be played.
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After sitting out 2020 because of COVID, the Portland Sea Dogs will be back on the baseball diamond in 2021 with 60 home games at Hadlock Field and 60 games on the road, the team announced on Thursday.
A home opener is planned for May 4 against the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, and team executives said they are working with the state to gain approval for hosting fans in a reduced capacity. We can’t wait to bring baseball back in a safe way to our fans, Chris Cameron, the team s vice president for communications and fan experience, told Mainebiz, ahead of his 25th season with the Sea Dogs.