Local high school coaching rivals and former University of Maine standouts Jon Perry from Hampden Academy and Dana Corey from Brewer High headline the list of 11 individuals who will be inducted into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame in October.
The induction banquet will be held Oct. 4 at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland.
They will be joined by former Husson University baseball coach John Kolasinski; Portland brothers Mark and Scott Littlefield; Portland’s Mike McCullum; Augusta’s Al Cloutier; Auburn’s Bob Blackman; Lewiston natives Don Plourde and Jim Taylor; and former Northern Aroostook League star J Ronald Livingston.
Perry, who is already in the Hampden Academy Athletic Hall of Fame, was a second team All-Yankee Conference selection at first base for the Black Bears in 1980 and helped lead them to a College World Series appearance in 1981 when he hit .434.
That is the fifth-highest single-season average in school history. He was a two-time All-Zone I American Legion selection and was a multisport standout at Hampden Academy.
Perry went on to become a graduate assistant coach at the University of Connecticut and an assistant at Bangor’s Husson University.
He was the head baseball coach at Old Town High as well as Hermon High before taking over at Hampden Academy in 2020. He coached the Queen City Riverdogs to state American Legion baseball titles in 2022 and 2024.
He has also been an athletic administrator in Hermon, Waterville and Bucksport and is a longtime football, basketball and baseball official.
Corey was inducted into the Brewer Athletic Hall of Fame with his father, Shirley “Slip” Corey, in 2016.
In addition to his baseball exploits, he quarterbacked the 1968 Brewer High football team to an 11-0 season and a state championship.
Former Brewer football and baseball coach Ken Perrone called him one of the “two best overall athletes I’ve ever coached.”
Corey had a terrific baseball campaign in 1971 at the University of Maine, where he hit a team-best .359 and led the team in virtually every offensive category. He hit five homers and scored 25 runs.
He was drafted in the second round by the Chicago Cubs and was the 40th overall pick.
He spent two years in the Cubs organization and has been the head baseball coach at Brewer for 18 years.
Kolasinski played for Husson, before becoming the head coach, compiling a 283-263-1 record over his 15 seasons. He was a five-time conference coach of the year and a two-time regional coach of the year.
Kolasinski had a run of 14 consecutive playoff appearances, and he compiled a regular season conference record of 94-39.
He left to become the head coach at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan, where he compiled a 333-676-1 mark in 22 seasons to give him 616 career victories in 37 years between Husson and Siena Heights.
He was inducted into the Husson Hall of Fame in 2004.
Blackman guided St Dominic’s Academy of Auburn to nine state baseball championships over 22 seasons and compiled a winning percentage of .750.
He is the current head coach at Gray-New Gloucester High School.
Cloutier has been a highly influential figure in the Augusta baseball landscape for more than 50 years.
He followed an impressive playing career with successful stints as the baseball coach at Cony High in Augusta and with the Augusta American Legion team. He was also the Babe Ruth League director.
Scott Littlefield, who died last year, was an outstanding player at Portland High before playing at UMass. He went on to become an assistant coach at Florida State and the University of Southern Maine before venturing into a 34-year career as a Major League Baseball scout.
He was the scout of the year with the San Diego Padres in 2007 and the Texas Rangers in 2019, and he also spent 16 years as the special assistant, player personnel with the Rangers.
Mark Littlefield, a Portland High graduate, is in his 36th season working on the medical staff in the New York Yankees organization. He has spent 29 years as the Yankees’ medical coordinator for player development.
The Littlefields join their brother David in the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame. The former Pittsburgh Pirates general manager and current Detroit Tigers scout was inducted in 2017.
Livingston, who is being honored posthumously, was an all-star infielder in the 1930s and ’40s for the Presque Isle Indians in the Northern Aroostook League.
He went into coaching and later became a director of the South Portland National Little League.
McCullum concluded his time at University of Southern Maine with a career batting average of .338. He was a Division III All-American in 1999 and had a six-hit game against Western Connecticut on April 3, 1999. He has been inducted into the USM and the Little East Conference halls of fame.
Don Plourde will join his twin brother, Ron, in the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame. Longtime Skidmore University (New York) baseball coach Ron Plourde was inducted last year.
Don Plourde has spent more than 30 years coaching at the youth, high school and collegiate level and is currently in his 17th season as the Cony High baseball coach.
He has been named the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Coach of the Year five times.
Taylor has had a major impact on the baseball community as a founding member of the Central Maine Board of Approved Baseball Umpires.
The long-time umpire worked games at all levels, including NCAA Division I, and has served as an athletic director at Lewiston Middle School. He has also been the equipment manager and former assistant football coach at Bates College in Lewiston.
Upon his retirement, the highly decorated athletic administrator earned the Al Card Sportsmanship Award named after another long-time influential umpire.
The Jim Taylor Award is named after him and goes to individuals who demonstrate dedication to umpiring.
