Bates Bobcast Episode 187: Bates Baseball's First Big Leaguer, Harry Lord '08

This week, with Major League Baseball's season finally starting, we take a deep dive into Bates baseball's past, as we learn about the Bobcats' first big leaguer: Harry Lord '08. During his nine seasons in the major leagues, Lord captained both the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago White Sox, and spent a year in the outlaw Federal League. And recently, Bob Muldoon '81 found out a bit more about Lord's time as a Bobcat. Muldoon graduated from Bates in 1981 with a degree in economics and earned a Masters from Columbia in 1991. He played a year of lacrosse at Bates for Web Harrison and later became a bit of a boxer at Columbia. But his real passion: early 20th century baseball. Recently, Muldoon found himself looking up the story of Harry Lord, a Mainer from the class of 1908. Starting in the fall of 1904, Lord only spent a little under a year on the Bates campus as a student. But his story is a wild one, culminating in him playing nine years in Major League Baseball and returning to Bates during World War I to coach the team he'd left in the lurch 13 years earlier. Muldoon is the author of a novel on his beloved Hartford Whalers hockey team. But this story about an early Bates baseball great is all true. Here's Muldoon on his interest in history, the Bobcats, and Harry Lord.