By Jon Ouellette, Special to the Bangor Daily News Journalist Ed Rice of Orono has been an advocate for Native Americans’ rights in sports since the 1970s. He has written commentaries, given speeches and penned a book titled “Baseball’s First Indian, Louis Sockalexis: Penobscot Legend, Cleveland Indian,” where he argues that Sockalexis deserves recognition as baseball’s first Native American ball player. Rice, 65, has spoken twice at the Hall’s baseball writers’ symposium in the last … [Read more...]