Southern Maine
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Harry Lord And The First BoSox Team
South Portland grocery store owner died in Westbrook in 1948 by Charles Francis
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hat Maine-born Harry Lord was a member of the first team known as the Boston Red Sox is an accepted fact. There are plenty of diehard Boston fans in Maine that can cite every conceivable connection between the state and the Red Sox no matter how trivial. None of them will question Lord’s playing for Boston in 1907 or 1908 and up to 1910. But you can get some heated discussion as to exactly what the name of the Boston entry into the American League was before it officially became the Red Sox. That debate is almost up there on a par with the appropriate way to abbreviate the team’s name: BoSox or Bosox. Then, too, there are a number of conflicts and questions about Harry Lord himself. I’ve run across informa-
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~ Harry Lord ~
tion to the effect that Lord was born in Aroostook County. That’s when there is no question as to Lord’s birthplace being Porter in the Ossipee Valley. Harry Lord began his major league career with Boston in 1907. The legendary Tris Speaker, the first great Boston star, was with the team then. Freddy Parent from Biddeford was, too. Parent has his footnote in Boston and Maine baseball history as the last surviving member of Boston’s first World Championship win. It was also the first World Series, though the contest didn’t go by that name then. The stats for Harry Lord’s 1907 year have him playing for the Boston Americans. 1908 stats have him a member of the Boston Red Sox. Boston officially became the Red Sox on December 18, 1907. 1908 Boston uniforms sported a
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