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DR. CHARLES R. GEER The Yankee scouts were sending offers but Dr. Charles Geer wasn’t buying in the 1930’s. More important for the versatile infielder was hard study at Tufts Medical School for the baseball and basketball star at Deering High. Impressed with the ability to hit a curve ball and a sharp fielder, Geer played on a staunch Colby ballclub with the likes of Ralph Peabody, Danny Ayotte, Scrubby Sawyer, Arthur Brown and Ron (Rum) Lemieux. He was co-captain of the baseball team there in his senior season, graduating in 1936. One day the recently elected member of the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame would soon forget was in high school against Portland—In a “battle of between Geer and George Blaisdell, Geer made eight errors, Blaisdell seven. But Geer rarely had off-days. Playing different infield positions (the Yankees liked him as a second baseman) he was a valued member on the many teams he played for, including the Worumbo Indians. He retired in 1937, bowing out at the right time, soon after the Indians won the state and New England championship. He served in World War Il as a medico and said the Allied surgeons were superior to the Germans in up-to-the-minute treatment of casualties. Geer took part in “D Day,” although he arrived a day after it began. “When the day was over, we were so tired that we would just fall down and go to sleep.” In one of his big pay days as a baseball player for Haley’s Portland Green Sox, he received .50¢ for an important game. That was one reason Geer stuck to doctoring. it sure paid better then. If things were different in his day and today’s high salaries dominated baseball then, who knows, he might have became a Yankee. “Not me,” the 66-year-old family practitioner married to Mary Alice said. “I loved medicine as a profession, baseball as a game".

Embleton was active locally during World War II and while in the service played for several area teams the next decade. He was a Bangor native who joined the army in 1912 at Fort Mc Kinley in Portland Harbor, was a star baseball, football and basketball player there. He left the service in '24, pitched the local Knights of Columbus past Bowdoin, New Hampshire and St Anselms College and was also a stand out boxer.

(Drisko) scouted by longtime New York Giants star Bill Terry was invited to spring training in '35. He was with the Boston Braves' Jonesville Ohio farm team of the Middle Atlantic League in '36 but developed arm trouble. His .400 batting average while with Sherbrooke, Quebec of the Provincial League in '39-'40 was the league's best. He coached Columbia Falls High to county titles in '58 and '59.

1940 -- Rome Colonels Canadian-American League ?

Driscoll was born in Boston in 1900, overcame loss of an eye as a youngster to play center field and first base. Playing days were not numerous in Massachusetts clubs, but a move to Sanford at 18 proved fortuitous. Babe Ruth erased Driscoll's distance record homer at Goodall Park.

Curren was a pinch hitting specialist and accomplished catcher with several Pine Tree State combines.

Harold “Ubbie” Craft A hard-throwing right-hander: Craft pitched Larry Gates’ Westbrook High team to the 1935 Telegram League title. He was an All-Telly selection in 1934 and ’35. Craft received several big-league offers but refused to leave Maine. Always a crowd favorite with local semipro teams, Craft played for Beal Furniture, the Sportsman’s Grill and the old Portland Gulls. Craft pitched for Magnate Haley in exhibition games featuring major-league All-Star teams and Maine's best semi-pro players. The games were played in Portland. Auburn, Auburn, Augusta, Bangor and Houlton. Craft was listed in “Who's Who in Maine Sports.” He spent 35. years working as a refinisher for the Thomas Beal Furniture Co. Craft died on March 19 of this year.

Portland

Conroy, a longball hitting first baseman joined the New York Giants the same time as famed pitcher Christy Mathewson did . He jumped to the Federal League and later played in Pennsylvania and Ohio leagues. He also starred in semipro games on the old Forest Avenue grounds in Portland.

South Portland's own Gene Class was barely in his teens when invited to New York Yankees stadium for a look-see. Class dominated the Telegram League in the mid -40s as a crafty southpaw, compiling a 27-3 record. He was a fighter pilot who died in a crash over Korea in 1951.