Dance Off! South Florida vs. Connecticut
USF and UConn had some fun during their five-hour rain delay on May 21st. Can you spot some of the players on CCBL rosters? You’ll see three right off the bat doing the “Macarena”! #4 UConn – George Springer (Wareham) #6 South Florida – Ryan Lockwood (Harwich–see comments) #9 UConn – Pierre LePage (Bourne) #18 UConn - Dave Fischer (Wareham) #19 UConn – Dan Mahoney (Bourne) #21 UConn – Elliot Glynn (Orleans) #22 UConn – Mike Olt (Orleans) #26 UConn - Matt Barnes (Wareham) #33 UConn – Dusty Odenbach (Wareham)
Read MoreChatham at Bourne Rescheduled
Just a quick note to mention that we have been informed that the Chatham at Bourne game originally scheduled for Wednesday, June 17, has been pushed back by one day. The game will now be played at Doran Park on June 18 @ 6:00pm. The game was the only one scheduled to be played on June 17, but with this change, that date is now the only open date on the league schedule.
Read MoreHost families on the Cape
This Memorial Day weekend I talked with a family who recently was contacted by the West Coast League, a summer college baseball league in the Pacific Northwest, to serve as a host family for a player. The family is incredibly generous but the local team was asking if they also could drive the player to the field for practice and games. They weren’t too sure of that but they could offer a room, food, laundry and a family to hang with. The Cape League has always relied on the kindness of strangers and many host families to this day have long-standing relationships with players who moved on from the Cape to the Big Leagues. A story in the Albany, New York, newspaper reminded me that it’s clutch time for summer college teams as the season approaches. ...
Read MoreBooks: McCarthy is baseball’s odd man out
The Cape Cod Baseball League attracts top college players from universities everywhere, but very few come from the Ivy League. On my current CCBL roster I see Wareham has a pitcher from Harvard, but you won’t find many Ivy Leaguers on Cape teams. From reporting in Jim Collins’ narrative account of a season on the Cape we know that players from the big state schools think their brainiac Ivy League teammates are, uh, a little strange. Collins, by the way, is quoted on the book cover. Former Yale left-handed pitcher Matt McCarthy explores this theme in his very funny, insightful and somewhat flawed memoir, Odd Man Out, a first-person account of a year on the mound as a minor league misfit. For college and summer league fans, we learn about the...
Read MoreEx-Red Sox Josh Faiola in the News
Dartmouth’s Josh Faiola was an integral part of the Y-D Red Sox championship season in 2004. In 18 relief appearances that year, Faiola compiled a 3-2 record to go with a sparkling 1.14 ERA. In three playoff outings covering four innings, Faiola won his only decision and saved two games while not giving up a run. Faiola was rewarded by being named co-Playoff MVP Award winner with teammate Ryan Rohlinger. In June, 2005, Faiola was picked in the 32nd round of the MLB draft by the Baltimore Orioles. An underwhelming financial offer made for what was likely an easy decision for Faiola to return to Dartmouth. After going back to Hanover and dominating Ivy League batters, Faiola was drafted again by the Orioles in June, 2006; this time in the 24th...
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