A hot topic in Cape League baseball every year is players leaving early after All-Star weekend (and the peak season for scouts).
On one side of the coin, we should be grateful to see the best players in the country on the Cape every season. Some players have been playing ball non-stop since the late winter, [...]

HYANNIS — The West-leading Bourne Braves beat the advancing Hyannis Mets 3-2 on a postcard perfect evening in Hyannis tonight. Falmouth also won tonight keeping the West tight.
The Bourne Braves took a 3-2 lead in the 4th inning when Kevin Hoeff reached on an error scoring Ben Guez and Bill Perry. Hoeff collided [...]

Andrew and I caught up this past week with Jim Collins, author of The Last Best League which chronicles a season in the Cape Cod Baseball League.
A number of books examine the storied Cape league, but Jim’s narrative account of an entire Cape season is an enjoyable journalistic telling of the players, managers and dynamics [...]

I arrived at game time to the All-Star Game in Wareham. As I was driving in at about 5:30pm, the national anthem was being played and I was being directed by volunteers to park in one of the last few spots in the back of Wareham High School. I was reminded of the large Wareham [...]

On a sunny, Cape-perfect afternoon and evening in Wareham, the Eastern Division All-Stars of the Cape Cod Baseball League held on to beat the Western Division All-Stars 3-2.
The main action came in the 4th when Yonder Alonso (Brewster/Miami) of the Eastern squad scored on a Gordon Beckham (Y-D Red Sox/Georgia) double which he stretched into [...]