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WESTBROOK'S OWN 'YANKEE': HOMIDAS "HUSKY" AUBE
1906 - 1973
“One spring day in 1925, the city of Westbrook closed for a baseball game. The paper mill shut down, signs on shuttered storefronts read, “Closed. Gone to the ball game.” The game was at Warren League Field between Catholic High School (now Cheverus) and Westbrook High. The pitchers were Husky Aube (a Westbrook boy) for Cheverus and Gene Hebert for Westbrook. Local fans were upset that Husky was playing for the opponent that they picketed his house. The outcome was a win for Westbrook and Aube returned to WHS for his senior year.
Homidas Joseph Aube, know by nickname Husky, was the youngest in a family of nine. He became a legend in Westbrook as a baseball player and as the city’s long-time chief of police. He was a graduate of Westbrook High (1927) and from Fordham University in NY where he made the college national all-star team in 1930.
In 1931, a local newspaper headline “Husky” Aube, Westbrook and Fordham Pitcher, signed by N.Y. Yankees”. Westbrook very own Yankee!!
Aube spent 4 years with the Yankee organization but an auto accident injury probably undermined a lengthy career. In 1934 he threw a no-hitter for a Yankee farm team, Binghamton, but the Yankees had other crack pitchers that year, Red Ruffing and Lefty Gomez, so he was not able to break into their rotation. Aube roomed with Cy Perkins, and later Lefty Gomez. To Babe Ruth, Aube was “The Kid’”. In later years Aube would tell his family many funny stories of Ruth.
Husky returned to Westbrook after 1934 season and began a long career in Westbrook police work. He joined the WPD in 1935 and served as its Chief for 15 years, serving under three different Mayors. Following retirement in 1961, he worked as a security guard at Weyerhaeuser Co. and S.D. Warren until he retired two months before his death in 1973. One year later he was inducted into Maine Baseball Hall of Fame. Husky still remains a hero in the minds of many Westbrook residents.
Homidas Joseph Aube, know by nickname Husky, was the youngest in a family of nine. He became a legend in Westbrook as a baseball player and as the city’s long-time chief of police. He was a graduate of Westbrook High (1927) and from Fordham University in NY where he made the college national all-star team in 1930.
In 1931, a local newspaper headline “Husky” Aube, Westbrook and Fordham Pitcher, signed by N.Y. Yankees”. Westbrook very own Yankee!!
Aube spent 4 years with the Yankee organization but an auto accident injury probably undermined a lengthy career. In 1934 he threw a no-hitter for a Yankee farm team, Binghamton, but the Yankees had other crack pitchers that year, Red Ruffing and Lefty Gomez, so he was not able to break into their rotation. Aube roomed with Cy Perkins, and later Lefty Gomez. To Babe Ruth, Aube was “The Kid’”. In later years Aube would tell his family many funny stories of Ruth.
Husky returned to Westbrook after 1934 season and began a long career in Westbrook police work. He joined the WPD in 1935 and served as its Chief for 15 years, serving under three different Mayors. Following retirement in 1961, he worked as a security guard at Weyerhaeuser Co. and S.D. Warren until he retired two months before his death in 1973. One year later he was inducted into Maine Baseball Hall of Fame. Husky still remains a hero in the minds of many Westbrook residents.
Husky in his Yankee uniform
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Westbrook Police Department 1954, Chief Aube
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References: News clippings, scrapbooks, History of Westbrook Police Department by S. Lyons