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McFarland, Edward (Bo) (1989)

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Maine Baseball HOF
Aug 12, 2019
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McFarland, Edward (Bo) (89)

Edward James McFarland An outstanding three-sport athlete at Scarborough High School, “Bo” McFarland was a free agent selection of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1965 after hitting .453 for the Redskins, but elected to attend Bowdoin College.

At Bowdoin, McFarland followed his father, Packy, who had captained the Polar Bears’ first formal basketball team in 1946-47.

When he graduated in 1969, McFarland held numerous college scoring records and established five New England Small College records. He was named New England Small College Basketball Player of the Year in 1969.

Captain of basketball and baseball at Bowdoin, McFarland was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in 1969 and was also on the draft list of the New York Knicks and Oakland Oaks.

At Scarborough, McFarland was a Triple-C all-star selection in basketball and baseball, won the Pierre Harnois Trophy in 1964 as Most Valuable Player in the Western Maine Basketball tournament and was voted to the Randolph Hearst New England All-Star baseball Team in 1964-65.

McFarland played American Legion Baseball for Manchester Post which won three consecutive state championships. He batted .387 tor 47 games.

in 1965, McFarland was one of 35 players selected for the 20th Annual Boston Record American-Sunday Advertiser Sandlot Baseball Tournament. At Bowdoin he was Maine’s Athlete of the year in 1968 and Governor Kenneth Curtis proclaimed a special day in his honor.

That year he was all-star second baseman in the Cape Cod League, Comprised of the best college players in the country. All New England in the College Division in 1968-69 in basketball, he was recipient of the Wooten Spoon Award presented by vote of the Bowdoin Junior class to the most respected and popular member of the class.

After Bowdoin, where he hit .328 in his senior year, McFarland played at Corning, N.Y. in the New York-Penn League and Waterloo in the Midwest League in the Kansas City organization.

His second season was interrupted by a six-month tour of duty in the Army Reserves. McFarland had been invited to Kansas City’s instructional League, but the Army had first priority.

Joining the team in midseason, McFarland hit .220 and that fall accepted a position as head basketball coach at Morse High School.

McFarland is the second baseman on Maine’s All-Time High School Team and All-Time College Team chosen this year by the Maine Sunday Telegram.




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McFarland was a stellar baseball player while at Bowdoin, earning All-New England honors and batting .328 while serving as captain his senior season. He was a two-time All-Maine selection and earned All-Star status while playing in the Cape Cod League in the summer of 1968. Following graduation, he was drafted by the Kansas City Royals and played in their minor-league system for several seasons. Maine sportswriters in 1968 named McFarland winner of the Governor's Trophy as Maine's outstanding athlete. In 1989, the Portland Press Herald named McFarland to its Maine All-Time College Baseball Team. McFarland has been inducted into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame (1989), and the Maine Sports Hall of Fame (1993) .



McFarland, Edward (Bo) (89)

 
 
 

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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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