As late summer grudgingly gives way to autumn in Maine, the boys of summer are already long since gone.

The office personnel and officials of both the Bangor Lumberjacks and Portland Sea Dogs are still hard at work selling tickets and team merchandise, but the players are already miles away … looking for, starting, or already well into working at their offseason jobs.

Veteran infielder Todd Brock, one of the few Lumberjack players who remained on the active roster all season, works as a substitute teacher and for his family’s construction business, but he has more pressing matters to attend to first.

The 25-year-old Brock is marrying longtime girlfriend Amber on Oct. 4.

Outfielder-second baseman Schuyler Doakes, the team’s top base-stealer with a Northeast League-leading total of 29 despite joining the team 61/2 weeks into the season, is already back in his native Detroit. He’s been a high school special education teacher for the last five years.

“I’ll have a good time with the family and stay in shape and look forward to next season,” said Doakes. “I’d like to be back here next year.”

Nick Saunders, who became a utility infielder and backup catcher for Bangor after being signed by the team in the second half of the season, works as a substitute teacher and also as a coach in the offseason.

Bangor manager Kash Beauchamp tempered his disappointment at not making the playoffs for a second straight season with thoughts of sitting in his Oklahoma Memorial Stadium seats.

“I’ll spend some time with my kids in Georgia and then I’ll be going back to Oklahoma and I have season tickets to Oklahoma University football so I’ll be going to the Oklahoma-Alabama game,” said the native Oklahoman, who lives in the same town OU’s campus is located (Norman).

When he’s not rooting on his beloved Sooners, Beauchamp will be substitute teaching. This winter, he’ll referee high school basketball games. He’s also investing his time in another important pursuit.

“My girlfriend and I have been going out eight months now and we’re going to start a relationship and live together, so I’m going to concentrate on her,” Beauchamp said.

Pitcher and pitching coach Kevin Pincavitch has a lot on his plate this offseason. Pincavitch, who suffered a shoulder injury, planned to get a magnetic resonance image (MRI) in Bangor and determine whether he would need offseason surgery.

“If I don’t need the surgery, I’m going to coach junior high basketball, varsity baseball, and work with my brother in construction,” said Pincavitch, who played in a golf tournament with ball boy Andy Baldacci and won some prizes the week after the season ended.

If all that’s not enough, the 33-year-old Pincavitch also works as an instructor at night baseball camps and as a limousine driver on weekends in Mapletown, N.C.

Even if surgery is required, Pincavitch doesn’t expect it to be major.

“It’ll be arthroscopic. It may be a slight tear in the labrum. They’ll fix it up, stitch it up, and after six months rehab, I should be healthy next year,” said the righthander, who compiled a 7-3 record.

It might be hard to understand why Pincavitch would want to undergo a second offseason of rehabilitation from surgery in the last three years, especially when his last one cost him a full season away from baseball.

“Hey, I need 19 strikeouts for 1,000 in my career … and I’d like to win a ring,” he said.

Players like Mark Burke manage to offset their disappointment over the end of the season, especially when he was finally getting hot at the plate after a frustrating season of relocation in which he played for three teams in three different leagues. Burke, who was arguably Bangor’s best hitter in the last two weeks of the season, welcomed the break only because it allows him to reconnect with family, friends and loved ones.

Andrew Neff can be reached at 990-8205, 1-800-310-8600, or aneff@bangordailynews.net