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Donald Rosenberger, Maine General Hospital baseball game, Portland, 1950

Donald Rosenberger, Maine General Hospital baseball game, Portland, 1950
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Maine Historical Society

Donald Rosenberger, director of Maine General Hospital, rides a donkey during a baseball game sponsored by the hospital's employee Recreation Association. The employees' team beat Dr. Wellington's "medical nine" 2-1. "It was a toss-up all the way," said Dr. Cooper and Will Pooler.

On the employees' team were Frank Quinn, player-manager; Wilfred Pooler; Ernest Yorke; John Lucey; Mike Kilmartin; Ted Waterhouse; Dick Waugh; Warren Sanborn; Leo Poulin; and Karl Retter. On the doctors' team were J. Foster Wellington, MD, Manager; Charles Glassmire, MD; Walter Russell, MD; Kurtland Lord, MD; DeVerle Strickler, MD; Llewellyn Cooper, MD; Lawrence Crane, MD; the Rev. Clyde Campbell, Rosenberger, Edwin Gee, and Homer McDavitt.

Maine General Hospital is the predecessor of Maine Medical Center.

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