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They’re finally back: Sea Dogs ready for season opener on Tuesday
After the canceled minor league baseball season of 2020, the Sea Dogs return to Hadlock Field with a new manager and many new faces in the field.
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Members of the 2021 Portland Sea Dogs warm up before a workout Monday at Hadlock Field, a day before their season opener on Tuesday. Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer
Ever since, Hadlock Field has been without professional baseball.
SEASON OPENER
WHEN: 6 p.m. Tuesday
A drought of 610 days is scheduled to end Tuesday night when those same Fisher Cats return to Portland for Opening Day of the Double-A Northeast, a 12-team league that replaces the nearly century-old Eastern League.
With less than a week to go until opening day for the Portland Sea Dogs at Hadlock Field, the Double-A baseball team has scooped up a new ice cream supplier based in Skowhegan.
The team announced Wednesday that Gifford s Famous Ice Cream will supply the ice cream part of the popular Sea Dogs Biscuit sweet treats sold at ballgames, a year after cutting ties with Sanford-based Shain s of Maine over accusations of racism against that company s owner.
Next Tuesday when the Sea Dogs host the New Hampshire Fisher Cats at Hadlock before a limited-capacity crowd, Gifford s will supply the ice cream sandwiched between two chocolate chip cookies.
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We’ve had two shortstops named Alex Gonzalez; this is the first.
This Alex was a member of the
Blue Jays from 1994 to 2001.
The Jays drafted Gonzalez in the 14th round of the 1991 amateur draft. He had the best career of any player taken in that round of that draft. He rose quickly thru the Jays minor league system and started the 1994 season as the Jay’s starting SS at the age of 21, but after 15 games, he had a .151 batting average, and the Jays gave the job to
Dick Schofield. It would have been good if the team had a bit more patience with him; Schofield was nearing the end of an ok career, but, by then, he wasn’t a guy you’d want to play short for you.