Cape Cod Baseball League


The Cape Cod Baseball League is a collegiate summer baseball league located on Cape Cod in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. One of the nation's premier collegiate summer leagues, the league boasts over one thousand former players who have gone on to play in the major leagues.

History

Pre-modern era

Origins

As early as the 1860s, baseball teams representing various Cape Cod towns and villages were competing against one another. The earliest newspaper account is of an 1867 game in Sandwich between the hometown "Nichols Club" and the visiting Cummaquid team. Though not formalized as a league, the games provided entertainment for residents and summer visitors.
In 1885, a Fourth of July baseball game was held matching teams from Barnstable and Sandwich. According to contemporary accounts, the 1885 contest may have been at least the twelfth such annual game. By the late 19th century, an annual championship baseball tournament was being held each fall at the Barnstable County Fair, an event that continued well into the 20th century, with teams representing towns from Cape Cod and the larger region.
In 1921, the Barnstable County Agricultural Society determined to limit the fair's annual baseball championship to teams from Cape Cod. Falmouth won the championship in 1921, and Osterville in 1922. Interest in baseball was growing, as was a movement to create a formal league of Cape Cod teams.

The early Cape League era (1923–1939)

The "Cape Cod Baseball League" was formed in 1923, consisting of four teams: Falmouth, Osterville, Hyannis, and Chatham. Teams were made up of players from local colleges and prep schools, along with some semi-pro players and other locals. One notable player during this period was North Truro native Danny "Deacon" MacFayden, who went on to play for seventeen years in the major leagues.
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the composition of the league varied from season to season. Towns did not opt to field teams in every season, and teams from other towns such as Bourne, Harwich, Orleans, Provincetown, and Wareham joined the league. Teams were not limited to league play, and often played teams from towns and cities in the larger region, as in 1929 when Falmouth played an exhibition game against the major league Boston Braves.
The league enjoyed widespread popularity throughout the 1930s, and even engendered competition in the form of the Barnstable County Twilight League and the Lower Cape Twilight League. However, as the cumulative effects of the Great Depression made it increasingly more difficult to secure funding for teams, the Cape League disbanded in 1940.

The Upper and Lower Cape League era (1946–1962)

With young men returning home after World War II, the Cape League was revived in 1946. The league now excluded paid professional or semi-pro players, and for awhile attempted to limit players to those who were Cape Cod residents. The league was split into Upper Cape and Lower Cape divisions, and in addition to many of the town teams from the "old" Cape League, new teams now joined such as those representing the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Otis Air Force Base, and the Cape Verdean Club of Harwich among others.

Modern era (1963–present)

In 1963, the Cape Cod Baseball League was reorganized and became officially sanctioned by the NCAA. The league would no longer be limited to Cape Cod residents, but would recruit college players and coaches from an increasingly wide radius.
In 1985, the league moved away from the use of aluminum bats, and became the only collegiate summer league in the nation at that time to use wooden bats. This transition began a period of significant growth in the league's popularity and prestige among MLB scouts, as well as among college players and coaches. This popularity has translated into over one thousand former players who have gone on to major league playing careers, including multiple members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
The league's 2020 season was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Structure and season

The CCBL regular season runs from mid-June through mid-August. Teams are geographically divided into the East Division and West Division. Each division consists of five teams which each play 44 regular season games in a largely balanced schedule that is not weighted toward intradivisional foes.
During the latter half of the regular season, an all-star game is contested between the all stars from the East and West divisions, and features a pre-game home run hitting contest. The CCBL All-Star Game was played at Fenway Park from 2009 to 2011, but is normally played at one of the CCBL home fields.
Following the regular season, the top four teams in each division qualify for the playoffs, which is an elimination tournament consisting of three rounds of best of three series to determine the league champion and winner of the Arnold Mycock trophy.

Teams

Current teams

Origin of team nicknames

Prior to 2009, six of the ten teams in the CCBL shared their team nickname with a team in Major League Baseball. However, in late 2008 MLB announced that it would enforce its trademarks, and required those CCBL teams to either change their nicknames or buy their uniforms and merchandise only through MLB-licensed vendors.
Three of the teams eventually changed their nicknames. In 2009, the Chatham Athletics became the Anglers, and the Orleans Cardinals became the Firebirds. The following season, the Hyannis Mets became the Harbor Hawks.
The Bourne Braves and Yarmouth–Dennis Red Sox, teams who share nicknames with Boston's two historic professional baseball franchises, chose to keep their nicknames and use MLB licensees for their merchandise.
MLB could not enforce the "Mariners" trademark against the Harwich Mariners because the use of the nickname by Harwich predated the entry of the Seattle Mariners into MLB as an expansion team in 1977.
The four teams whose nicknames were not in conflict with MLB have locally-themed names such as the nautical monikers of the Falmouth Commodores and Brewster Whitecaps. The Cotuit Kettleers nickname recalls a legendary local Native American land transaction whose terms of sale involved the exchange of a brass kettle. The Wareham Gatemen are the only team that does not play its home games on Cape Cod, as the town of Wareham sits on the edge of the mainland, at the "gateway" to Cape Cod.

Franchise timelines

Origins
Below is a partial list of Cape Cod baseball teams from the 1860s until the formation of the Cape League in 1923.


Early Cape League era

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Upper and Lower Cape League era

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  1. -- Chatham
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  1. -- Dennis
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  1. -- Orleans
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Beginnings of the modern era
From 1963 to 1969, the newly-reorganized league maintained the Upper Cape/Lower Cape divisional structure, with the championship series played by the winners of each division. Beginning in 1970, the divisional structure gave way to a single combined league, with the top four teams in the league advancing to the playoffs. This combined league structure continued through 1987.

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Present Day
In 1988, the Bourne Braves and the Brewster Whitecaps joined the CCBL as expansion teams and the resulting ten-team league was split into East and West divisions. Since 1988, there have been no changes to the league's franchise composition or divisional alignments.

League championships

YearWinning
Team		ManagerGamesLosing
Team*		ManagerRef
1923FalmouthByron H. Parker
Frank Silva
1924OstervilleArthur "Dutch" Ayer
1925OstervilleJoe Murphy
1926Hyannis /
Osterville
Freddie Moncewicz

John "Dot" Whelan

1927HyannisFreddie Moncewicz
1928OstervilleEddie McGrath
1929FalmouthLynn Wells
1930WarehamHarry Noznesky
1931FalmouthJack Walsh
1932FalmouthJack Walsh
1933HarwichJoe Harraghy3–0FalmouthJack Walsh
1934BarnstablePete Herman
1935FalmouthJack Walsh3–2BarnstablePete Herman
1936BourneLarry Donovan
1937BarnstablePete Herman
1938FalmouthBill Boehner
1939FalmouthBuzz Harvey

However, there were four years in which the league split its regular season and crowned separate champions for the first and second halves. In two of those
seasons, a single team won both halves and was declared overall champion. In the other two split seasons, a post-season
playoff series was contested between the two half-season champions to determine the overall champion.
came up short in back-to-back CCBL title series as a player with Harwich and Orleans in 1962 and 1963, but won a league title in 1965 as manager of Sagamore.
YearWinning
Team		ManagerGamesLosing
Team		ManagerRef
1946FalmouthJohn DeMello2–1Harwich
1947OrleansHerb Fuller2–0Mashpee
1948Mashpee2–0OrleansHerb Fuller
1949OrleansLaurin PetersonFalmouthWillard E. Boyden
1950OrleansLaurin PetersonSagamoreGeorge Karras
1951SagamoreGeorge Karras3–2OrleansLaurin Peterson
1952OrleansLaurin Peterson3–0SagamoreGeorge Karras
1953OrleansLaurin Peterson3–0SagamoreGeorge Karras
1954SagamoreGeorge KarrasOrleansLaurin Peterson
1955OrleansLaurin PetersonCotuitCal Burlingame
1956SagamoreManny Pena2–0DennisBren Taylor
1957OrleansLaurin Peterson2–0Wareham
1958YarmouthJohn Halunen2–0SagamoreManny Pena
1959SagamoreManny Pena2–0OrleansLaurin Peterson
1960YarmouthJohn Halunen2–1SagamoreManny Pena
1961CotuitJim Hubbard2–1YarmouthJohn Halunen
1962CotuitJim Hubbard2–0Harwich

was playoff MVP of Harwich's 1987 championship season.
pitched for the 1997 CCBL champion Wareham Gatemen
won playoff co-MVP in Orleans' 2005 championship season
played shortstop and catcher for the 2006 & 2007 back-to-back CCBL champion Y-D Red Sox
played on Harwich's 2008 CCBL championship team
was playoff MVP of Cotuit's 2013 championship season

ManagerTeamSeasons as ManagerTotal
Seasons		Total
Championships		Championship Seasons
Scott PicklerY-D1998–20192262004, 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016
Bill LiveseyFalmouth
Wareham		1965–1972
1976–1977 		1061966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971
1976
Laurin PetersonOrleans1949–19621461949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1957
Jack McCarthyCotuit1970–1978951972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977
Don ReedY-D
Wareham		1987–1990
1991–1999 		1341989, 1990
1994, 1997
Jim HubbardCotuit1961–1969941961, 1962, 1963, 1964
Mike RobertsWareham
Cotuit		1984, 2000
2004–2019 		1832010, 2013, 2019
Cooper FarrisWareham2001–2004
2006–2015		1432001, 2002, 2012
George GreerCotuit1979–1987931981, 1984, 1985
Jack WalshFalmouth1931–1936631931, 1932, 1935
Steve EnglertHarwich2003–20191722008, 2011
John SchiffnerChatham1993–20172521996, 1998
Mike CouttsCotuit1995–1996
1999–2001		521995, 1999
Bob SchaeferBourne
Hyannis		1971–1972
1978–1979 		421978, 1979
John HalunenYarmouth1958–1963621958, 1960
Manny PenaSagamore1956–1961621956, 1959
George KarrasSagamore1948–1954721951, 1954
Pete HermanChatham
Barnstable		1930–1931
1933–1937 		721934, 1937
Freddie MoncewiczHyannis1926–1927
1929–1930		421926, 1927

All-Star Game

The first CCBL All-Star Game took place in 1946, as a squad of Cape League stars battled a collection of Boston Red Sox tryout players. Throughout the Upper and Lower Cape League era, the two divisions routinely featured both intra-divisional all-star contests, as well as an annual inter-divisional CCBL All-Star Game. From 1957 to 1961, the CCBL All-Star Game was sponsored by P. Ballantine and Sons Brewing Company. Ballantine was a major advertising sponsor of the New York Yankees, and arranged for appearances at the CCBL festivities by Yankee luminaries such as Phil Rizzuto, Elston Howard, Whitey Ford, Moose Skowron, Bill Stafford, Eddie Lopat, and Mel Allen, as well as Brooklyn Dodgers great Roy Campanella.
The first All-Star Game of the modern era took place in 1963 when a team from the CCBL faced a team from the southeastern Massachusetts-based Cranberry League. The game was played at Keith Field in Sagamore, and the CCBL came out on top, 15–2.
From 1964 to 1969, the All-Star Game was contested between the CCBL's Upper Cape and Lower Cape divisions.
From 1970 to 1987, a team of stars from the CCBL played an annual interleague All-Star Game against stars from the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League. The games were typically played at major league stadiums including Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium in New York, and Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium.
Since 1988, the All-Star Game has been contested between stars representing the CCBL's East and West divisions, and has also featured a pre-game home run hitting contest. The event is normally held at one of the CCBL home fields, though it returned to Fenway Park for a three-year stretch from 2009 to 2011.
was MVP of the 1973 CCBL All-Star Game
, CCBL Hall of Famer and MVP of the 1980 CCBL All-Star Game
YearWinning TeamScoreVenueWinning PitcherRef
1963CCBL15–2Keith FieldBernie Kilroy, Cotuit
1964Upper Cape4–2Veteran's FieldBud Knittel, Falmouth
1965Upper Cape10–9Clem Spillane FieldSteve Kadison, Falmouth
1966Lower Cape5–1Guv Fuller FieldJoe Jabar, Chatham
1967Lower Cape9–1Eldredge ParkChuck Seelbach, Orleans
1968Upper Cape3–0Veteran's FieldDave Stone, Falmouth
1969Lower Cape4–0Whitehouse FieldHank Bunnell, Chatham

, East MVP of the 1992 CCBL All-Star Game
, 1994 CCBL Home Run Derby champion
, East MVP of the 1999 CCBL All-Star Game
, East MVP of the 2009 CCBL All-Star Game
CCBL Hall of Fame Inductee
*Due to a scheduling conflict with the ACBL, the 1972 All-Star Game was contested between the CCBL all-stars and the defending league champion Falmouth Commodores.
†From 1988–90, a single MVP and a single Outstanding Pitcher were named. Beginning in 1991, an MVP was named from each division.

Annual award winners

The league annually presents several individual awards, including:
Individual season records below are for a 42-game regular season from 1963–1987 and a 44-game regular season from 1988–present.
Aluminum bats were used from 1975 through 1984.

Individual batting, season (1963–present)

AVGPlayerYear
.505Ken Voges, Chatham1963
.443Sam Nattile, Falmouth1981
.434Nat "Buck" Showalter, Hyannis1976
.431Terry Steinbach, Cotuit1982
.425Andrew Calica, Wareham2015
.420Thurman Munson, Chatham1967
.420Tom Weir, Chatham1966

HRPlayerYear
22Cory Snyder, Harwich1983
16Tyler Horan, Wareham2012
16Dave Staton, Brewster1988
16Tim Teufel, Cotuit1979
15Jim McCollom, Falmouth1984
15Bill Schroeder, Hyannis1978

RBIPlayerYear
54Doug Fisher, Falmouth1984
54Terry Steinbach, Cotuit1982
52Mike Lopez, Wareham1982
52Tim Teufel, Cotuit1979
51Chris Morgan, Hyannis1983

ABPlayerYear
191Paul Ottavinia, Chatham1993
189Donn Samra, Wareham1983
188Warner Jones, Wareham2004
186Warner Jones, Wareham2003

HPlayerYear
75Terry Steinbach, Cotuit1982
70Sam Nattile, Falmouth1981
70Rod Peters, Harwich1981
69Mark Smith, Wareham1990
69Ron Perry Jr., Hyannis1979

2BPlayerYear
19Dan Olson, Hyannis1994
19Walt Weiss, Wareham1984
18Kevin Nicholson, Wareham1996
18Terry Steinbach, Cotuit1982

SBPlayerYear
48Roy Marsh, Wareham1993
47Jeremy Carr, Chatham1992
43Mickey Morandini, Y-D1987
42Billy Rapp, Wareham1986

Individual pitching, season (1963–present)

WPlayerYear
11Pat Hope, Hyannis1987
10Noel Kinski, Sagamore1965
9

GPlayerYear
30Jeff Innis, Cotuit1982
29Ryan Cahalan, Cotuit2004
29Mike Dennison, Bourne2001
27Donnie Bivens, Y-D1996

SVPlayerYear
16Ryan Speier, Bourne2001
15Derrick DePriest, Chatham1999
13Josh Fields, Y-D2006
13Clint Chrysler, Wareham1996
13Drew Fischer, Brewster1996
13Scott Winchester, Falmouth1994

No-hit games

YearPitcherTeamOpponentScoreLocationNotesRef
1909Arthur StaffHyannisQuartermasters of Boston8–1
1915Walt WhittakerFalmouthOak Bluffs6–0Central Park Field
1916Ed GillHyannisFalmouth3–0
1917Ed GillHyannisRockland2–0
1917Charles ZeiglerFalmouthRomar A.A. of Dorchester5–0
1922Franklin BearseOstervilleMiddleboro10–1West Bay Field
1937Norman MerrillBarnstableBourne5–0
1947Roche PiresFalmouthBourne5–1
1947Roche PiresFalmouthSandwich15–0
1948Ed PetersonFalmouthSandwich5–05-inning game
1948Jack CunninghamBourneSandwich4–0
1948Bob JohnsonChathamYarmouth5–0
1949Johnny DrewOstervilleCotuit2–0
1949Bob BurgessBrewsterHarwich Cape Verdeans6–0
1949Copeland RogersBarnstableOtis AFB1–0
1950Roche PiresFalmouthMaritime7–07-inning game
1950Lefty MorrisonOtis AFBOsterville6–0
1950Charlie JonesChathamHarwich Cape Verdeans9–0
1951Carlos PenziBarnstableFalmouth 0–1Combined;
Lost game
1951Jackie GomezBarnstableFalmouth 0–1Combined;
Lost game
1951Ron RothCotuitFalmouth 4–0Central Park Field
1952Jack McCarthyFalmouthFalmouth Central Park FieldNot to be confused with CCBL HOF'er Jack McCarthy
1952Ted ReynoldsYarmouthNorth Truro AFS9–0
1952Jim PattersonSagamoreCotuit7–2
1953Cal BurlingameYarmouthChatham4–1
1953Jim PattersonSagamoreWareham5–2
1953Bill PalmerEasthamHarwich4–0
1953Jack SanfordSagamoreFalmouth 12–0Central Park Field
1953Jim PattersonSagamoreMashpee8–0
1954Cal BurlingameYarmouthEastham1–0
1954Roy BruninghausOrleansYarmouth4–0Perfect game
1954Dick SmithSagamoreMashpee3–0
1955Larry CummingSagamoreWareham3–0
1955Jack SanfordSagamoreCotuit6–0
1956John LinnellOrleansBrewster8–0
1957Jerry RoodYarmouthBrewster2–0
1957Jerry GlynnChathamDennis7–0
1957Tom KrausOtis AFBMaritime4–0
1959Russ NixonSagamoreMaritime10–0
1960Charlie RichardsDennisChatham9–0
1961Johnny CoburnWarehamMaritime6–0
1961Bernie KilroyCotuitMaritime12–0
1961Dick CassaniYarmouthOrleans3–0Playoff game
1962John BouzanOrleansYarmouth3–0
1962Frank KashitaChathamYarmouth6–0
1965Tom YankusOrleans
1966Len SheflottFalmouthSagamore3–06-inning game
1966Don WielandChathamYarmouth10–05-inning game
1967Chuck SeelbachOrleansChathamEldredge Park
1967Don GabrielChathamHarwich6–1Veteran's Field
1967Jim CourierCotuit
1967Doug SmithCotuitWareham8–1
1967Ron DrewsFalmouthBourne6–07-inning game
1967Bill PettingellYarmouthBourne
1969Ed SzadoCotuitBourne5–0
1971Mike PazikOrleansHarwich6–0
1971Rick BurleyCotuitHarwich2–0
1971Russ PeachFalmouthYarmouth3–0
1985Bob O'BrienOrleansCotuit8–0Eldredge Park
1987Dave FitzgeraldCotuitHarwich6–0
1987Pat HopeHyannisWareham10–0Perfect game
1991Steve DudaChathamY-D5–0
1991Richard KingHyannisWareham3–0Playoff game;
caught by Jason Varitek
1993Matt MorrisHyannisFalmouth4–06-inning game;
caught by Jason Varitek
1996Eric MiltonFalmouthOrleans2–0Eldredge Park
1996Josh GandyCotuitWareham1–0
1998Hank ThomsY-DOrleans6–0Eldredge Park
2002Joe LittleCotuitChatham9–1Lowell ParkCombined
2002Jarred StuartCotuitChatham9–1Lowell ParkCombined
2002Kevin OolCotuitChatham9–1Lowell ParkCombined
2002Josh BanksCotuitChatham9–1Lowell ParkCombined
2002Jim BrauerY-DChatham7–0Veteran's Field
2006Terry DoyleY-DChatham2–0Red Wilson Field
2006Charlie FurbushHyannisBourne14–0Doran Park
2006Kris DobrowieckiFalmouthBourne5–0Doran Park8-inning game;
Combined
2006Sean MorganFalmouthBourne5–0Doran Park8-inning game;
Combined
2006Brandon CoppFalmouthBourne5–0Doran Park8-inning game;
Combined
2006Sam DemelFalmouthBourne5–0Doran Park8-inning game;
Combined
2007Matt DalyHyannisWareham4–1McKeon Park
2009Chad BellCotuitChatham8–2Veteran's Field
2010Jordan PriesY-DOrleans2–0Eldredge Park
2012Jeff ThompsonBourneHarwich9–0Doran Park6-inning game
2013Austin GomberBourneCotuit8–0Lowell ParkCombined
2013Josh LaxerBourneCotuit8–0Lowell ParkCombined
2013Ryan HarrisBourneCotuit8–0Lowell ParkCombined
2015Devin SmeltzerHyannisHarwich5–0Whitehouse Field
2016Peter SolomonHarwichChatham10–0Veteran's FieldCombined
2016Zach SchellengerHarwichChatham10–0Veteran's FieldCombined
2016Tommy DeJuneasHarwichChatham10–0Veteran's FieldCombined
2016Nick BrownHarwichChatham10–0Veteran's FieldCombined
2018Mitchell SengerOrleansBrewster3–2Stony Brook FieldCombined
2018Aaron OchsenbeinOrleansBrewster3–2Stony Brook FieldCombined
2018Zack HessHarwichBourne1–0Whitehouse Field7-inning game;
Combined
2018Kyle BrnovichHarwichBourne1–0Whitehouse Field7-inning game;
Combined
2018Joe La SorsaHarwichBourne1–0Whitehouse Field7-inning game;
Combined
2019Jacob PalischHarwichOrleans2–0Eldredge Park7-inning game
2019Connor McCulloughHarwichChatham1–0Veteran's FieldPlayoff game;
Combined
2019Joe BoyleHarwichChatham1–0Veteran's FieldPlayoff game;
Combined

CCBL Hall of Fame Inductee

Presidents and commissioners

Years in OfficeNameRef
1968–1970Charles F. Moore
1970–1971Elwood C. Kastner
1972–1976Robert A. McNeece
1976–1977Mike Curran
1978–1983Russ Ford
1983–1986Dick Sullivan
1986–1987Chuck Smith
1988–1989Dave Mulholland
1989–1991John Claffey
1991–2015Judy Walden Scarafile
2015–presentChuck Sturtevant

CCBL Hall of Fame Inductee

Hall of Fame and Museum

The CCBL Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame honoring past players, coaches, and others who have made outstanding contributions to the CCBL. Since its inaugural class in 2000, the Hall of Fame has held annual inductions of new members, enshrining over 160 members to date.
Originally opened to the public in 2003 at the Heritage Museums and Gardens in Sandwich, the Hall of Fame and Museum moved in 2008 to the lower level of the John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum in Hyannis, Massachusetts. In 2017, it moved from this location, and is currently awaiting the completion of its new home within the planned Total Athletics of Cape Cod sports training facility in Hyannis.
Inductees :
The following former CCBL players have been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
In addition to the player inductees below, Cooperstown also honored longtime CCBL president Judy Walden Scarafile in 2010 by featuring her in the museum's Diamond Dreams exhibit, which highlights stories of pioneering women in baseball.
PlayerPie TraynorCarlton FiskFrank ThomasCraig BiggioJeff Bagwell
Player
CCBL TeamFalmouth
1919		Orleans Cardinals
1966		Orleans Cardinals
1988		Yarmouth–Dennis Red Sox
1986		Chatham A's
1987, 1988
Year
Inducted		19482000201420152017
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CCBL Hall of Fame Inductee