With their first Cape League championship in 21 years, we can agree that 2008 was a great year to be a Harwich Mariner. The just completed ‘08 MLB regular season was a pretty good year for a member of the 2005 Mariners as well.   
Tim Lincecum put up some astounding numbers for the San Francisco [...]

In Field of Dreams, Shoeless Joe tells Ray that if he builds it (the field) they will come.  The Cape Cod Baseball League might as well have a parallel quip, “if the scouts don’t come, neither will the top talent.”
I had the great privilege recently of spending a little time with one of the great scouts, Mel [...]

Names familiar to Cape League fans are on rosters for this winter’s Hawaii Winter Baseball League. Kyle Galdeira of the Hawaii League announced rosters this week for its 4 teams. The rosters require approval from Major League Baseball, Nippon (Japan) Professional Baseball and the Korea Baseball Organization.
Buster Posey (FL State, Y-D, Giants), Andrew Brackman (NC [...]

The Touching the Game: Alaska DVD is now targeted for a spring 2009 release. The DVD tells the story of the Alaska Baseball League, and is by the same people that released the CCBL DVD in ‘04. For more details on the progress of the DVD, visit the Touching the Game blog.
For those that haven’t [...]

Playing for Peanuts is a 10-episode TV series about the 2007 South Coast League’s South Georgia Peanuts. The episodes are now being made available online through iTunes, Youtube, Playingforpeanuts.com, and other video sites.
The Peanuts played in the inaugural season of South Coast League and won the championship, before the franchise called it quits. The South [...]