To the editor:
 
I got a new car last summer. After driving a Ford pickup truck for 10 years, I got President Obama to buy it as a “clunker.” I drove the new car around for 13 days without finding the time to get it registered or make it into a car wash despite some mud puddle adventures.
I also had not put on any of the type of bumper stickers that had adorned my truck.
Scarborough High School Varsity Baseball Coach Jim Cronin saw me drive by a couple times without a Scarborough baseball bumper sticker. Here comes trouble.
I was parked one day and Cronin walks up like a police officer. I rolled down the window.
“What’s up, coach” I said.
“New car?” he asked.
“Yes. Just got it. Finally had to put the truck out of its misery,” I said.
“Just got it?” he asked, sounding skeptical.
“Well, actually, a week or so ago.” I answered.
He went back and looked at the plate. He could tell when the purchase had been.
“So you’ve been driving around two weeks without a Scarborough baseball bumper sticker on it?” he said, sounding like Sgt. Joe Friday.
“Okay, look,” he said, producing a sticker that said: Scarborough Baseball – the fastest game on dirt. “Lucky for you, here is another bumper sticker like the one you had on your truck. I’ll just put this on,” he said, walking to the back of the car.
Cronin’s zeal for baseball is showing itself again this winter as he acts as information clearinghouse for efforts to raise money for three baseball teams being threatened with the budget ax by the school board. High school baseball boosters are focusing on raising money for the seventh- and ninth- grade teams. Libby-Mitchell American Legion Post #76 is coordinating efforts to raise funds to make sure the Middle School Development Team is there this spring.
Anyone interested in making a donation toward a fund to save all three teams, may send checks payable to Libby-Mitchell Legion Baseball, P.O. Box 1, Scarborough, ME 04070.

Dan Warren
Scarborough