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Flaherty & Pike to be Inducted into Maine Baseball Hall of Fame

Flaherty & Pike to be Inducted into Maine Baseball Hall of Fame
Posted: May 25, 2023

STANDISH, Maine – The Maine Baseball Hall of Fame has announced its 2023 inductees, who will be honored at a banquet at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland on October 15th, and a pair of former Saint Joseph's College standouts will be enshrined.

Richard Flaherty '87 and Arlo Pike, Jr. '87 are among the 11 inductees who will enter the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame this fall.

One of the elite pitchers in Saint Joseph's College baseball history, Flaherty remains among the Monks' all-time statistical leaders in strikeouts (256, 1st), wins (23, 2nd), innings (242.1, 2nd), K/9 (9.51, 5th), and ERA (2.67, 6th).

Flaherty registered one of the best pitching seasons in team history in 1985, when he went 9-1 with a 1.92 ERA and 89 strikeouts in 70.1 innings – all of which ranked as single-season records at the time - helped lead the Monks to their first NAIA New England Region Championship with a 6-3 record and 80 strikeouts in 81 innings during his senior season.

From the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame website: Richard Flaherty of Scarborough was an elite pitcher for Saint Joseph's College in the 1980s, helping lead the Monks to their first NAIA New England Regional Championship in 1986. In 2000, he was elected as a charter member of the Saint Joseph's College Athletics Hall of Fame.

A four-year starter for the Saint Joseph's baseball program, Pike hit .356 (166-466) with 116 runs, 31 doubles, 12 triples, 14 home runs, 111 RBI and 61 stolen bases while posting a .564 slugging percentage with a .459 OBP. He was inducted into the SJC Athletics Hall of Fame in 2002.

Pike, who struck out once every 17.3 plate appearances during his career, remains as the toughest player to strike out in team history and is still listed among the SJC career leaders in stolen bases (3rd), triples (12, 4th), walks (89, 4th), OBP (9th), SLG% (11th), RBI (12th), and runs (13th).

From the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame website: Arlo Pike, Jr. of Buxton was a cornerstone of Saint Joseph's College's emergence as a small-college baseball power in the 1980s. He was a three-time All-NAIA District 5 pick, and in 1986 he hit .408, a Monks' single-season record for which he earned All-American honors.

Flaherty and Pike join Bill Burke, Sally McNamara, Mike Connolly, Phil Curtis, Dennis Kiah, Dickie Norton, Bill Patterson, Mike Puiia, and George Ross as members of the 2023 Maine Baseball Hall of Fame Class.

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Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy in Portland, Maine, Saint Joseph’s College is Maine’s Catholic liberal arts college in the Mercy tradition. We are inclusive of all faiths, including no faith. The 474-acre campus, located on the shore of Sebago Lake in Standish, Maine offers more than 40 undergraduate programs and a Division III athletic program to a population of approximately 1,000 on-campus students. A pioneer of distance education since the 1970s, the College also provides online certificates and undergraduate and graduate degrees for thousands more working adults who reside in more than 20 other countries. In 2015 the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions within local, regional, and global communities. In 2018, Princeton Review recognized SJC as one of its “Green Colleges” for its sustainability initiatives. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.

 

 

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