Top Baseball Towns in Penobscot County, ME
Ranked on championships won since 2000 — high school state titles and Little League district, section and state titles counted together, with recent wins weighted more heavily. 7 towns have won something.
Bangor leads Penobscot County, ME, scoring 20.72 on both halves of the game roughly evenly, and not narrowly — Bangor is clear of Old Town by 11.02 points. 7 towns have won something since 2000.
The top 7 in Penobscot County, ME are Bangor, Old Town, Orono, Brewer, Hampden, Lee and Millinocket.
Size is doing a lot of work here. Lee is in the top ten on a population of 919, while Bangor has 32,446 to draw on — roughly 35 times as many people. That is why the tables below are also split into population bands: a town should be measured against places its own size before it is measured against a city.
Hampden is in the top ten on youth baseball alone: 2 Little League titles and no high school championship since 2000.
Recency matters in this table — a title's weight halves every 12 years, so the standings drift on their own every season. Old Town has won something in the last two seasons, which is why it sits where it does.
| # | Town | Score | Population | HS titles | LL state | LL district | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bangor ME Penobscot County | 20.72 | 32,446 | 7 | 3 | 12 | Bangor High School · John Bapst Memorial High School +1 |
| 2 | Old Town ME Penobscot County | 9.7 | 7,431 | 3 | — | 5 | Old Town High School · Old Town Little League |
| 3 | Orono ME Penobscot County | 4.03 | 12,199 | 2 | — | — | Orono High School |
| 4 | Brewer ME Penobscot County | 2.36 | 9,629 | 1 | — | 1 | Brewer High School · Sluggers Baseball & Softball |
| 5 | Hampden ME Penobscot County | 1.17 | 8,022 | — | — | 2 | Bronco Little League |
| 6 | Lee ME Penobscot County | 0.71 | 919 | 1 | — | — | Lee Academy |
| 7 | Millinocket ME Penobscot County | 0.67 | 4,116 | 1 | — | — | Stearns Jr-Sr High School |
By town size
A championship out of a town of 6,000 is a different achievement from the same title in a city of 600,000. Same scoring, ranked against places of the same size.
How this is scored
- High school state championship — 3 points
- Little League state title — 3 points
- Little League sectional title — 2 points
- Little League district title — 1 point
Only titles since 2000 count, each one's weight halves every 12 years, private-school titles count for 0.75 of a public one, and a regional school's championship is split between the towns it serves.
Full method, sources and what the rankings can't see →By county in Maine
Counties with enough towns on the board to rank. Smaller counties are folded into their state list rather than given a page of three rows.