Baseball Hall of Fame ceremony
scheduled for this weekend
Eleven men, including one from Presque Isle, will be inducted into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame during ceremonies scheduled for this weekend, July 31, at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland.
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HALL OF FAME — James Dyer of Presque Isle will be inducted posthumously into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame this weekend.
Aroostook County baseball legend James Dyer is being inducted posthumously. Jim Carter of Presque Isle will be speaking on behalf of Dyer’s family at the ceremony.
Other inductees include Chad White of Bangor, Dick Scott of Ellsworth, Greg Reed of Lincoln, Kenneth Libbey of Mattawamkeag, Bob Baumer of Lisbon Falls, Dennis Gratto of Portland, Mark Palmer of Rumford, Bob Prince of South Portland and Bill Wing of Richmond and currently Ooltewah, Tenn.
Bobby Doyle of Gorham will join Dyer as a posthumous inductee.
Dyer was a player-manager for the Presque Isle Indians semi-professional team in the late 1940s and early 1950s who also went on to successfully coach the Wildcat varsity baseball team for 15 seasons.
Dyer is a member of the Maine Sports Hall of Fame and the Maine Sports Legends Hall of Honors. The Presque Isle High School baseball field was named the James E. Dyer Memorial Field in Jim’s honor.
