All-Star Game back to Fenway in 2010?
The Cape Cod Times is reporting that the league is considering Fenway to host the 2010 All-Star Game. President Judy Walden Scarafile has been authorized to begin negotiating to hold the event at Fenway. Last season, of course, the West won 3-0 in a rain-shortened game. The Cape Cod Times calls last year’s All-Star Game a “success” because it drew 11,000 fans. I am hesitant to call it a success based on numbers alone, since I know many fans were disappointed after making the trek to Boston. But, whether the league had a rain-date or not, the game would have ended the same way. I think most fans were disappointed by the weather and the date the league chose, and not how the league managed the game. Based on the Red Sox’s 2010 schedule, the...
Read MoreCape League’s Josh Faiola to Star on ESPN
Back in May our writer Dave Bethel wrote a post about Josh Faiola, a relief pitcher for the 2004 Cape League Champion Y-D Red Sox. This week I received an email from ESPN notifying us that Josh’s story of struggle will be featured on the network’s award-winning E-60 news program on Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m. ET. As Dave reported five months ago, Josh went from the Cape League to the independent Frontier League, where he lived with an elderly couple in an assisted living home in order to make ends meet. According to ESPN: ESPN’s award-winning primetime newsmagazine E:60 will feature the heartwarming story of a minor league baseball player who brightened the lives of some senior citizens…. Like many young men, Josh Faiola is chasing his...
Read More2010 Schedule and Playoff Format Changes
The always up-to-date Wareham website has announced that there will be changes to the Cape League’s regular season and playoff format. For the story by Scott Eaton click here. I like this better than the 2009 format. That one game play-in was a bad idea. Baseball is not meant to be played by having one game decide a playoff. It happened in MLB last year with the Twins-White Sox and this year with the Twins-Tigers, but there isn’t much else you can do if teams are tied after 162 games. I understand why some people won’t like the idea of 8 of the 10 teams making the playoffs. That’s getting close to the watered-down NHL where so many teams qualify that it’s hard not to make the playoffs. I’m OK with it in the CCBL though because...
Read MoreTeam Schedules in Google Calendar
Looking for something to do on a rainy fall day? Google Calendar recently added sports calendars that you can easily subscribe to. When going through the minor league baseball list, I also noticed Cape League teams in the mix. They are listed right there alongside the PawSox, Seadogs, and Spinners. Weird, but I won’t complain.
Read More2009 Cape League Hall of Famers
The Cape League today announced an unbelievable class of inductees to its Hall of Fame. I had to read the press release twice. Hall of Famer Harold “Pie” Traynor posthumously heads the 10-member Class of 2009. Longtime Pirates third baseman Traynor played for both Falmouth and Oak Bluffs in 1919 and is one of only two Cape Leaguers to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame (catcher Carlton Fisk is the other.). Traynor is joined by four other former big leaguers: Cotuit outfielder Greg Vaughn, who starred for the Brewers; Harwich hurler Joe Magrane, who pitched for the Cardinals, White Sox and Angels; Hyannis catcher Bill Schroeder, a former Brewers player and current television analyst; Orleans double threat Art Quirk, who pitched for the...
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