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.

• Bobcast Transcript

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.

Muldoon tells us the story of Harry Lord, a Mainer from the class of 1908. Lord only spent a little under a year on the Bates campus as a student. But he played nine years in MLB and returned to Bates during World War I to coach the team he'd left in the lurch 13 years earlier.