The League is going to hear about this
Check out the Summer Stock column in the Aug. 28-Sept. 10 issue of Baseball America. John Manuel writes a great column entitled, “Cape Cod all-star game proves disappointing for both scouts and fans.” Seems that the reported 80 scouts on hand were “vexed” by seeing position players called into pitch before the “quiet” crowd. Scouts were headed for the exits by the seventh inning due to the lack of quality pitching and the failure of players to run out ground balls. The excuse: weather. The season’s unusual number of rainouts lead to an unusual number of double-headers toward the end of the season and, hence, pressure to save young arms for the playoffs. “I’ve never seen anything like it, and I think I can...
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A Wikipedia search (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Cod_Baseball_League) of the Cape League will reveal 4 fine histories of the CCBL. The open source encyclopedia won’t tell you much about the books and film but it does provide a nice basic overview. (I have little comment on the 2001 Hollywood film, Summer Catch — http://summercatch.warnerbros.com/flash.html) The 4 serious works are: -Baseball by the Beach, written by Christopher Prise, was published in 1998. http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?S=R&qwork=576965&qsort=p&siteID=Pw2LQAj_zJk-Gv1TQFUg3Drbdj5fK5eLfw -The Last Best League (2004) is written by Jim Collins and is the only critical, journalistic treatment of the league. It is a must for any...
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