Falmouth Commodores: What the F?
The Falmouth Commodores are of two minds. In 2005, the team was represented by a bold, red scripted “F” against a black background. In 2006, the Commodores sported a scripted “FC” in two-tone white-top with burgundy bill. Last season, team management told me they were going back to the solo “F,” and the Commodores online store seems to support that decision. Looks like F it is. So what the F would you pick?
Read MoreMVP Smoak Recruited to Join Team USA
As the Cape’s opening day draws nearer, so does Team USA’s recruitment of top Cape talent. The Charleston, SC. Post and Courrier reported yesterday that CCBL MVP Justin Smoak of the South Carolina Gamecocks will play for Team USA, not the Cape this summer. Smoak is quoted as saying “the Cape was great, but I want to try something different.”
Read MoreScouting Report: USC Trojans’ Robert Stock, Ryan Cook and Grant Green
SEATTLE — I caught two USC Trojan games this weekend in their away stand with Washington. USC sophomore RHP Ryan Cook (Brewster), freshman infielder Grant Green (Y-D) and true freshman catcher/RHP Robert Stock (Cotuit) saw action this weekend. The Trojans took 2-out-of-3, losing Sunday’s matchup. Cook went eight innings on Saturday and got the win. He hit 92 on the USC gun. He was sharp for the several innings I watched him pitch. He kept the ball down but didn’t have much movement on the ball. Despite giving up just two runs, I thought he missed a lot outside. He walked four and struck out one. At 16 years-old, Stock chose to skip his senior year in high school and enroll at USC. He was Baseball America’s Youth Player of the Year...
Read MoreTryouts for Cape Cod Baseball League — Anyone going?
Can any of our loyal readers attend the June 2nd invitation-only tryouts at Spillane Field in Wareham? I am planning to order CodBall t-shirts one of these days to reward special correspondents. That’s a lame way of saying you’ll get a t-shirt if you volunteer. I’d love to have a first-hand report of who looked good and why. Photos and video would be even better. Post them to You Tube and we can link from there. Click on the CCBL website for details on when and...
Read MoreWhat’s this noise about aluminum bats?
The “bat spat,” as The New York Times has dubbed it, is over a Staten Island, NY, city councilman’s effort to ban aluminum bats because he (and many others) feel they are unsafe. The New York Sun has written that aluminum bats may go the way of trans fats — banned by cities nationwide. CodBall has tried to surface all of the big issues this off-season, and so with just 50 or so days until opening day on the Cape, why not allow readers to blow of any pent up steam about the growing debate over wood v. aluminum. Should local governments ban aluminum bats for safety reasons? The Times reports that Mike Mussina (Yankees) is for the ban. John Franco (Mets) is against the ban. The argument goes something like this: aluminum bats in the hands...
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