May
29
Bizarro Baseball? I don’t think so
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Sports Illustrated, in one of its better cover stories in years, picks up on the youth movement in Major League Baseball, which of course is rooted in elite summer college leagues like the Cape Cod Baseball League.
With the Tampa Bay Devil Rays rising to the top of the MLB, young pitchers like Tim Lincecum racking [...]
May
22
Rosenblatt and the College World Series
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CodBall has had an interest in the business story behind summer collegiate baseball, and so I couldn’t resist writing a post when The Wall Street Journal this week took on the story of Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha and the College World Series.
Rosenblatt has hosted the CWS for nearly 60 years, but Nebraskans have taken sides on [...]
May
18
Hoef Takes His Lumps
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Iowa Hawkeye Kevin Hoef, the Cape League All-Star and batting leader who played second for the Bourne Braves last season, is the subject of an interesting milestone. It seems Hoef has been hit by no fewer than 47 pitches over his playing career with Iowa.
CodBall missed asking Kevin about this phenomenon when we interviewed him [...]
May
9
Team USA Takes 6 from Cape League Rosters
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Our friends at the College Baseball Blog alerted us today to the fact that a number of CCBL players were named this week to TEAM USA, this country’s baseball bid to the Olympics. Six of the twelve named were listed on Cape Cod Baseball League rosters for the 2008 season:
CCBL – Christian Colon INF R/R [...]
May
3
UCLA Looks Like a Cape League All-Star Team
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Cape-rich UCLA came to Seattle last weekend to play a three-game series against the Washington Huskies. The UCLA Bruins, ranked number one at the beginning of the college baseball calendar, has struggled so far but is exciting to watch with 14 current and past Cape Cod Baseball League players on its roster this season.
On a sunny Friday [...]




