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Weaver, Henry P. (1980)

Writer: Maine Baseball HOF
Maine Baseball HOF
Aug 8, 2019
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Weaver, Henry P. (80)

Henry P. Weaver, York Beach, held such prestigious positions as chief of Maine State Police, but the former general managers of the Augusta Millionaires with a lifetime attachment to baseball regards as perhaps his most memorable Maine moment the signing of Haywood Sullivan. Sullivan, then a promising catcher, now is Boston Red Sox executive vice president and general manager.


Weaver, 86, and as firm a friend of Little League, Babe Ruth League and Pony Baseball as of the fst Down East League ball which groomed a husky University of Florida receiver for major league ball, will be inducted into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame at 6 PM Sunday April 27th at South Portland Boys Club.

York county companions entering that elite group will be Ray Seaward, Kennebunkport; Joe Goss, Limerick, and posthumously, Joe Driscoll, Sanford.

Weavers first attachment to baseball was as a player in Portsmouth NH Sunset League. As law enforcement responsibility increased, he put close baseball connection in the background while retaining a keen fan interest.


A veteran of both world wars, the second with intelligence in Italy, where wounds ended military duty, returned to police duty in Augusta. Baseball mushroomed in the postwar period. Weaver became associated with Ben Houser, former Bowdoin College baseball coach, and Sylvio "Turk" Gilbert, Augusta mayor and crack semipro infielder, bout hall of famers, in Millionaire operation.

Weaver and Gilbert were instrumental in formation of Pony baseball in the Augusta area, and Weaver was in on the ground floor in Little League activity in 1951. He has long been prominent in the Babe Ruth and American Legion programs.




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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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