Jun
30
Ellsbury Gets First MLB Hit
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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 [...]
Jun
28
Cape League Enters the Blogosphere
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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 [...]
Jun
27
Are International Players Part of the Future of Summer League Baseball?
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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 [...]
Jun
24
OSU Beavers Win: An Ode to Baseball in the NW
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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 [...]
Jun
24
Day 9: Around the Cape League & Wareham @ Cotuit
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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 [...]




