Aug
10
Dan Tritle (WCAI-FM) caught up with CodBall’s Greg Shaw for a 2009 end of season interview on Monday, August 10th.
Aug
6
CodBall Conversation: Brian Foley of The College Baseball Blog
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If you follow college baseball, chances are you are either a regular reader of The College Baseball Blog or you’ve stumbled across it in your online searches. The blog’s creator is Brian Foley, and he sat down with us for a CodBall Conversation after the recent rain-shortened Cape League All-star game at Fenway Park.
Whether you [...]
Aug
1
I’ve commented in the past that the bookshelf is beginning to sag beneath the weight of books about the Cape Cod Baseball League. There are narrative accounts of a season, historical accounts reaching back over 100 years, picture books and guides.
What has been missing has been a novel, a SABR-like encyclopedia and a children’s book.
Well, wait [...]
Jun
21
CodBall Conversation: Tom Simon, Creator of Cape League Dice Baseball Game
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EDITOR’S NOTE: CodBall continues its partnership with WCAI/WGBH NPR for the Cape and Islands. Broadcasted on Monday morning June 8th, Dan Tritle and I previewed the 2009 Cape season, and we interviewed Tom Simon for the latest CodBall Conversation.
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Its history reaches back as far as baseball itself, and this Thursday the Cape Cod Baseball League begins its [...]
Sep
23
CodBall Conversation: Veteran Scout, Mel Didier, Tells Us A Story
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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 [...]




