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Those Who Died That Others Might Be Free

 

Ted Maillet

 

Date and Place of Birth: 1920 Livermore Falls, Maine
Date and Place of Death: April 7, 1945 Belgium
Baseball Experience: Minor League
Position: Pitcher
Rank: Private First Class
Military Unit: 386th Infantry Regiment, 97th Infantry Division US Army
Area Served: European Theater of Operations

 

The Sailors won the Middle-Atlantic League playoffs here tonight as Ted Maillet pitched brilliant ball to defeat Canton, 4-3.

Charleston Daily Mail September 16, 1941

 

Theodore C "Ted" Maillet was born in Livermore Falls, Maine in 1920. He attended Livermore Falls High School where, under the direction of coach Paddy Davan, he became an outstanding pitcher and helped the high school team to the 1936 state baseball championship.

 

Maillet was signed by the Cincinnati Reds after high school and was assigned to the Durham Bulls of the Piedmont League late in 1939 and sent to the Columbia Reds in the Sally League. In 1940 the left-hander was with the Tyler Trojans in the East Texas League and helped guide the Erie Sailors to the Mid-Atlantic League play-offs in 1941. "Southpaw Ted Maillet," wrote the Mansfield News-Journal on September 12, 1941, "held the [Canton] Terrier batters helpless. He hurled hitless ball until the seventh inning, allowed only three hits over the entire distance, walked one, and permitted only one ball to leave the infield in the first six innings."

 

The young pitcher entered military service after the 1942 season and served with the Army in Europe. Private First Class Maillet was killed in action in Belgium on April 7, 1945. He is buried at the Ardennes American Cemetery in Neupre, Belgium.

 

Thanks to Davis O Barker for help with this biography.

 

Added September 19, 2006

 

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