The Maine Baseball Hall of Fame will welcome 11 new members at its annual induction ceremony and banquet to be held on July 31 at 11:30 a.m. at the Holiday Inn By the Bay on Spring Street in Portland.

Tickets can be obtained by contacting general chairman Sonny Noel at 428-3678 after April 1.

The 2005 inductees into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame are:

Mike Bordick, formerly of Winterport and now residing in Baltimore, starred for the University of Maine before going on to an outstanding major league career with the Oakland Athletics and Baltimore Orioles.

Mike D’Andrea of Portland was a pitching ace for Portland High School and the University of Maine before becoming head baseball coach at Deering High School in 1997 and leading the Rams to five state championships.

Vincent DeGifico of South Portland was a two-time All-American at the University of Southern Maine, leading the nation in hitting (.526) in 1986, and later played five seasons in the Red Sox organization.

LeRoy Dyer, formerly of Bar Harbor and now residing in Middletown, Conn., pitched in the 1950s for Bar Harbor High School and Bowdoin College, where he still holds the single-game strikeout record (15), before playing two years in the Milwaukee Braves system.

Mike Giobbi of Portland was the pitching mainstay for some outstanding Deering High and Caldwell Post teams in the early ’70s and posted the lowest ERA in the nation (0.68) for the University of Southern Maine in 1975.

Robert Miller of Livermore Falls played town team baseball for 30 years for the Chi-Liv Townies, Turner, and Farmington, and was an Andy Valley League Board umpire for 32 years.

Ed Ochmanski of South Portland starred in three sports at Cony High School in Augusta and has been a Western Maine Board umpire for 35 years.

Norman Paul of Shapleigh was a legendary pitcher in the Sanford Twilight League during the 1940s and ’50s and pitched two seasons in the New York Giants organization.

Bill Reynolds of Poland was a four-sport standout at Edward Little High School in Auburn before moving on to the University of Maine. He led the Black Bears to three NCAA Regional and College World Series appearances between 1983 and 1986.

Maxine Simmons of Camden played professional baseball in 1954 for the South Bend Blue Sox of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League, later popularized by the movie “A League of Their Own.” Simmons will be the first woman baseball player to be inducted into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame.

David Thompson, formerly of Belfast, now residing in Wayne, Pa., led the University of Maine to a College World Series appearance in 1964, where the Black Bears won three games and Thompson made the Series’ All-Star team.

The 2005 President’s Award winner is Farmington’s Bud Cook, a longtime promoter and benefactor of amateur sports in Franklin County.