Rumford native Puiia was a crack shortstop in the 1938 Stephens HIgh state baseball championship team. He played for Bryant Pond and rumford teams, MCI, COlby College and South Portland shipyard team managed my fellow Hall of Famer Jabber Joyce before joining the marine corps. Puiia was all state college center fielder under coach eddie roundy in '46, repeated as a senior and batted '395. He played for Ben Houser, another Maine Hall of Famer in '48 leading the Winthrop town team in home runs with 16
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