Nov

27

Happy Thanksgiving to CodBall Readers

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Hope you are all enjoying a wonderful Thanksgiving.  I started to come up with a list of the top 10 things a baseball fan does during this holiday season, but I think this image about says it all.  Enjoy!

Nov

18

Lincecum Always a Mariner (Harwich, Not Seattle)

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Only in baseball.
An awkward, slim little pitcher who broke records in the Pac-10 conference for an unremarkable college team, the Washington Huskies, went on to pitch for an unremarkable Cape League team, the Harwich Mariners.
This same pitcher, raised in the rain of western Washington, is overlooked by the other lowly Mariners — the drought-ridden Seattle Mariners [...]

Nov

16

Why a Bad Economy is OK for the Cape League

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Sports are generally what you get when you read the sports page. But these days news about the economic downturn (we will refrain from calling it a collapse) has migrated from the business page to the front page and now to the sports section.
News reports in recent weeks from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal [...]

Nov

8

An Early Look at the Y-D Red Sox

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For an early preview of the 2009 Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox, go to:   http://www.ydredsox.org/roster.htm
There are four returning members from the ‘08 Red Sox  -  Anthony Ranaudo (LSU; RHP), Josh Rutledge (Alabama; INF/OF), Tyler Waldron (Oregon State; RHP) and Andy Wilkins (Arkansas; 1B/DH).  Joining Ranaudo will be Tiger teammates Austin Ross (RHP) and star catcher Micah Gibbs.
Georgia, Florida and [...]

Nov

8

Cape Leaguers Star in Fall, Winter Leagues

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A few weeks after the last out of the World Series, as football and basketball takes over the sports pages, I start the annual longing for the return of baseball.  Then I remember that not every place is as grey and dreary as my home in Seattle.
That’s when I recall great baseball is still being [...]