Maine Memory Network

Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 1 of 3

"The games were played at the Town Field which was owned by the Town of Guilford. Before it was built it was plain woods or a field."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 2 of 3

"… tremendously was during the fair there were baseball games in the infield. The teams were made up of only boys, but the girls could cheer for them…"

Guilford, Maine - SPORTS - Page 3 of 3

"… Maine Championship, and went onto the state game! They did lose that game, but get this: It was played in the SNOW, how crazy is that? They did…"

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… The centerpiece of the fair was a double header baseball game between the local semi-pro Guilford Advertisers and a visiting team from the Eastern…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"The field has hosted many, many baseball games, plus track meets, football games and organized sports for developing athletes. Hippach Field, ca."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"… on the football field, basketball court, or the baseball diamond. Despite being competitive in all their sports programs, it was the success of the…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"In 1910 a baseball diamond was added to the park allowing baseball to be played. Bass Park was also built with a special entrance with enlarged…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"They played baseball and tug of war, and held regattas in Somes Sound. Back in Cambridge during the school year, they got together for meetings…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"Strong's first baseball team won their first nine games without a coach. Starting in the 1920s, students began to compete in intermural basketball…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… of the one day event came to be a double-header baseball game between the local semi-pro Guilford Advertisers and a visiting team from the Eastern…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"… in-town fields where some of the early baseball games were played (Roger Spear’s unpublished history of Baseball in Farmington)."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"There was also horse pulling and baseball games at the High School. Central School always had a food booth."