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Dalton, Harry (1992)

Writer: Maine Baseball HOF
Maine Baseball HOF
Aug 12, 2019
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Harry Dalton an Eastern Maine multi-sport legend of statewide, regional and national scope -- primarily as an official -- has earned honors in all strata of amateur baseball in a 46-year term of service.

The personable, efficient Brewer product built upon experience as an all round athlete to operate with keen understanding from all angles of the competition involved -- if an umpire ever won a popularity contest, Harry would have won it hands down.

Daltons long Little League service was marked by various roles he performed with dispatch.

he was league organizer and player agent for Bangor and Brewer circuits.

He was District 3 Administrator (Penobscot, Piscataquis, Aroostook and Washington counties).

He umpired all the way to the top -- local, state, New England, Eastern Regional and the World Series.

He was the first selected form New England and the only Pine Tree Stater to work the LL World Series.

He also organized girls softball, the Brewer Lassie League (ages 10-15), 1964-/0.

in semi-pro baseball circles, Dalton is a past president and director of the Eastern Maine League and coached the Brewer A.A. team.

Also active in American Legion baseball, he coached the Bangor Post 98 and the Brewer Post 12 teams.

Dalton has been equally active in the basketball, football and boxing Officiating ranks, likewise in 4.5 decades.

in fact, he’s still a licensed boxing judge and referee in Maine and is a member of the Maine Athletic Commission (supervises boxing among other sports).

Three times, he officiated three different sports in a month.

A member of the United Commercial Travelers (1951), Harry has also found time to lend his talents to numerous Civic and organization affairs.

These include: Brewer School Committee, 10 years; Brewer City Council, four years; Brewer Kiwanis Club, past president and 23 years as Secretary/Treasurer.

Among the many Dalton awards:

Bangor Daily News Hall of Fame, 1962: Ellsworth W. (Bill) Millett Award as Maine's Little League top umpire, 1964: naming of the Harry J. Dalton Little League Field in Brewer, 1961; Brewer Kiwanis Distinguished Service Award, 1964.




 
 
 

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Meet the 2026 Maine Baseball Hall of Fame inductees
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Portland Press Herald 4/10/2026
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/04/10/meet-the-2026-maine-baseball-hall-of-fame-inductees/?copylink=true

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Former St. Dominic and current Gray-New Gloucester coach Bob Blackman and Cony coach Don Plourde are among the 11 members of the newest class. Four coaches currently preparing for the upcoming high school baseball season are among the 11 inductees in the 2026 Maine Baseball Hall of Fame class.

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Gray-New Gloucester’s Bob Blackman, Brewer’s Dana Corey, Hampden Academy’s Jon Perry and Cony’s Don Plourde are all part of the class that will be inducted on Oct. 4 at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland. Blackman coached St. Dominic High School to nine state championships in 22 seasons before the school closed at the end of the last school year. He was named the coach at Gray-New Gloucester in September. Corey hit .359 at the University of Maine in 1971. He played two seasons in the Chicago Cubs system and has been the head coach at Brewer for 18 seasons.

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Perry hit .381 at the University of Maine in 1981 and helped the Black Bears reach the College World Series. He has coached for the past 45 seasons at the high school, American Legion and collegiate levels. 

Plourde is in his 17th season as the coach at Cony High School and has been named the KVAC Coach of the Year five times. He has been coaching at various levels for more than 30 years. 

Others earning induction are: 

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• Al Cloutier, who has been involved in baseball in Augusta as a player, Cony High and American Legion coach, Babe Ruth League director and volunteer. 

• John Kolasinski, who was a college coach at for 37 years, first at Husson and later at Siena Heights University in Michigan. He is a five-time New England Coach of the Year winner.

• Mark Littlefield, a Portland High graduate, who is now in his 36th season working on the medical staff of the New York Yankees organization. 

• Scott Littlefield, a Portland High graduate, who will be inducted posthumously. Littlefield coached at Florida State University and the University of Southern Maine before working for 34 years as a Major League Baseball scout, including 16 as a player personnel special assistant for the Texas Rangers.

• J. Ronald Livington, who will be inducted posthumously. Livingston was an All-Star infielder for the semi-pro Presque Isle Indians in the Northern Aroostook League in the 1930 and 1940s. He also coached and was a director in the South Portland National Little League.

• Mike McCullum, of Portland, who hit .338 at the University of Southern Maine and earned ABCA Division III All-American honors in 1999. 

• Jim Taylor of Lewiston, who was a founding member of the Central Maine Board of Approved Baseball Umpires and was instrumental in starting the Maine chapter of the Collegiate Baseball Umpires Association.

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Maine Baseball Hall of Fame day  Delta Dental Park aka Hadlock Field 7/19/2026
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