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Peverada, Bart (1984)

Writer: Maine Baseball HOF
Maine Baseball HOF
Aug 10, 2019
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April, 1966, Bart Peverada, director of Patriots Day 5-miler in Portland, Maine.

Bart Peverada belongs on a special plateau whenever Greater Portland boys are concerned. He was “Mr. Portland Boys’ Club” for more than 49 years before he retired a few years ago.

Despite a calendar that had more busy days circled on it than that of an IBM executive, Peverada handled the full burden of ticket and dinner arrangements for the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame from 1974-83. A humble individual, Peverada did a remarkable job. The Maine Baseball Hall of Fame will always be indebted to his yeoman efforts, his contagious enthusiasm.

As Portland Boys’ Club program chairman, Peverada never hesitated to tap former members for help, using their special talents to the fullest. Former members had so much adulation for Peverad:; that they rarely turned him down, the Boys’ Club always benefitting.

Peverada would explain his workhorse role as solely to keep the Boys’ Club name visible. To accomplish that objective, the wizard of finance became even more adept at promotion and public relations.

His contacts were limitless, and the fact that many of the city's businessmen and civic leaders grew up in the Boys’ Club athletic programs simplified salesmanship and fostered promotion.

An avid baseball fan, Peverada played more football than baseball as a youngster. However, his loyalty to the national pastime never Is questioned.

However it is his wisdom of Solomon to the thousands of youngsters who attended the Portland Boys’ Club that puts Peverada into an ivory tower throughout the Portland community. His one-on-one huddles in proper privacy, no matter the problem, have endeared him to too many to recount.



From Legacy Pages

July 10, 1927- March 3, 2015



Peverada, Bart (84)

Peverada, Bart (84)

 
 
 

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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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