Ellsbury Gets First MLB Hit
Former Commodore and Red Sox prospect Jacoby Ellsbury got his first major league baseball hit tonight. Ellsbury hit a routine ground ball to Michael Young off of Robinson Tejada, and impressively beat it out at 1st. Red Sox fans continue to be amazed by Ellsbury’s speed, and he could end up being the new homegrown fan favorite in Boston. Ellsbury had a .376 OBP in 2004 on the Cape. He had nearly a hit per game with 27 hits in 28 games played.
Read MoreCape League Enters the Blogosphere
For the past several seasons, I couldn’t understand why there were more books and DVDs about the Cape Cod Baseball League than there were online sources of information and commentary. The league and its teams have great websites, but we were looking for something different. That’s why we started CodBall — to provide a site year-around for news, commentary and information about a league that has been so important to baseball for so long. Well the dearth is no more. It seems each week Andrew and I are discovering a new blog or website devoted to the Cape Cod Baseball League. The Cape Cod Times has started an interesting and informative blog and an improved Sports section devoted to the Cape league. It was much needed. Will Bussiere, a league...
Read MoreAre International Players Part of the Future of Summer League Baseball?
David Ely’s “Summer Stock” column this week for Baseball America strikes a chord with me. Summer stock takes a look around America’s top summer baseball leagues. David writes that there is an influx of young baseball players from Taiwan playing now in the Alaska Baseball League, which is often cited as a rival with the Cape as the top summer league. To be fair, they are different leagues playing by different rules. But it is inarguable that Major League Baseball has become a global showcase of talent. Japanese, Latino, Korean, Canadian and Australian players are the norm on MLB rosters. Taiwan and China are not far behind. So why isn’t that international flavor finding its way into the premier summer baseball leagues? According...
Read MoreOSU Beavers Win: An Ode to Baseball in the NW
Oregon State won the College World Series tonight and so Cape Cod rosters should be complete soon. On this occasion of back-to-back NCAA baseball titles for the Pacific Northwest Beavers, I want to pass along some observations and maybe a prediction about this region. First of all, you should understand the perspective from which I write. Readers of this blog know that I write from Seattle for most of the year, except for the last half of the Cape season when I am in Woods Hole traveling around the league. What you may not know is that I am orginally from Oklahoma and Texas. And I moved to the Pacific Northwest from Virginia. I count myself a southerner who relocated to the Northwest but writes a blog about the greatest summer league, which happens to be in...
Read MoreDay 9: Around the Cape League & Wareham @ Cotuit
Now into its second week, The Cape Cod Baseball League is starting to tighten up. The two teams falling furthest behind — Falmouth and Wareham — are also the only two teams according to my review of rosters that are still awaiting players from the College World Series (Oregon State beat North Carolina in game 1). Falmouth is waiting for two Oregon State players, John Wallace (OF) and Joey Wong (Inf). Wareham also is awaiting 2 players — Jason Ogata (2B) of OSU and Mike Cavassini (OF) of North Carolina. Matt Petiton of North Carolina has joined Wareham, but was little help in his 1/3 inning start against Cotuit last night. Whether these players are enough to improve both team’s 1-6 start is hard to tell but it is interesting that they...
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