Reply to "Colleges in the Northeast"

RJMHSBaseballWeb member since 2007

The Maine Black Bears, at one time was a top 20 team I think back in the day, but just now a place to say you played D1 baseball.

Maine had a legitimate program back in the 70’s and early 80’s. In that era a trip to the CWS was regionalized. After a couple of competitive runs in the CWS Maine kept qualifying and got skewered each time. Finally, the format was changed to what it is today where the top sixteen teams host a regional. Maine baseball has been irrelevant ever since other than Mike Bordick and last year’s MLB World Series MVP Jeremy Peña.

The ‘76 team had future Hall of Fame college coaches Jack Leggett (Vermont, Clemson) and Ed Flaherty (Southern Maine). Flaherty was on Team USA. His son played for Vanderbilt and the Orioles. Bert Roberge pitched for the Astros and Expos. There were other drafted players on the team.

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