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Download my interview with Bob Bavasi, one of America’s leading authorities on baseball in Japan and the editor of JapanBall.com, an inspiration for CodBall.It seems every sports page in America this spring is chronicling the weekly progress of Boston Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka in the Grapefruit League. Over in the Cactus League, Ichiro [...]

This week C.C. Sabathia of the Cleveland Indians told The New York Times that the small percentage of African American baseball players is “a crisis.”
“There aren’t very many African American players, and it’s not just in here, it’s everywhere,” Sabathia said.
When he says everywhere, we all know what that means. Look at any [...]

We’ve referenced field improvements often on CodBall, and this week the Cape Cod Baseball League announced that both Lowell Field (Cotuit) and Spillane Field (Wareham) will receive $150,000 each from the Yawkey Foundation to make improvements.
This will come as welcome news for players, who consistently complain about the poor conditions in Wareham (see CodBall [...]

Former Falmouth outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury (Oregon State) is featured in Sunday’s Boston Globe and appears in Baseball America’s Top 100 Prospects, coming in at #33.
“Boston downplays Johnny Damon comparisons, but the parallels are hard to ignore,” Baseball America writes in its March 12-25 issue.
In the Globe, Jacoby mentions that someone has a photo [...]

This weekend my inbox lit up with emails and alerts about New Mexico Gov. and U.S. Presidential candidate Bill Richardson, who played for the 1967 Cotuit Ketleers in the CCBL. Friends and search engines alike were connecting my passion for the Cape Cod Baseball League with a new column by The New York [...]