Cape Cod Baseball League

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The Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) is a baseball league located on Cape Cod in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, in which many college baseball stars play during the summer. Myriad future Major League Baseball players have started there; during the 2005 MLB season, 198 CCBL alumni played in the majors or were on injured reserve. The league is also notable for its continuing use of wooden bats. Because it draws top-tier college players, the level of play is often considered the equivalent of high-A Minor League Baseball. The CCBL Hall of Fame is being housed at Heritage Museums and Gardens in Sandwich, Massachusetts through at least 2008. The Cape Cod Baseball League is one of eight leagues in the National Alliance of Summer Baseball.

1 The teams
2 The Cape Cod League in popular culture
3 External links
- 3.1 Team websites

[edit] The teams

The Cape Cod League regular season starts in mid-June and runs through mid-August. The playoffs determine the East and West Division Champions, who then compete for the League Championship.

Division	Team	Town	Home Field
West	Bourne Braves	Bourne	Braves Field (at Barry J. Motta Athletic Complex, Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School)
	Cotuit Kettleers	Cotuit	Lowell Park
	Falmouth Commodores	Falmouth	Arnie Allen Diamond at Guv Fuller Field
	Hyannis Mets	Hyannis	McKeon Field (Pope John Paul II High School)
	Wareham Gatemen	Wareham	Clem Spillane Field (Wareham High School)
East	Brewster Whitecaps	Brewster	Stony Brook Field (Stony Brook Elementary School)
	Chatham Athletics	Chatham	Veteran's Field
	Harwich Mariners	Harwich	Whitehouse Field (Harwich High School)
	Orleans Cardinals	Orleans	Eldredge Park (Nauset Regional Middle School)
	Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox	South Yarmouth	Red Wilson Field (Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School)

Many of the teams in the Cape League are named after MLB teams, and the Hyannis Mets at one point got their uniforms from the New York Mets.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] The Cape Cod League in popular culture

The Cape Cod League was the setting for the 2001 Hollywood film Summer Catch. The 2003 documentary film Touching the Game by Jim Carroll chronicled the 2003 CCBL season and explored the league's history.

There are several books on the Cape League. Baseball by the Beach (ISBN 0-9719547-4-7) by Christopher Price was published in 1998 and discusses the league and its history. In 2002, writer Jim Collins followed the Chatham Athletics for the season and wrote The Last Best League (ISBN 0-306-81418-8) about the team and its players. The 2004 novel Slider (ISBN 0-06-058033-X) by Patrick Robinson was based on the CCBL. In 2005, Beach Chairs and Baseball Bats (ISBN 1-4196-0508-9) by author Steve Weissman and Cape Crusaders (ISBN 1-4137-6232-8) by author Mike Thomas were published. The latter focuses on player interviews, while the former goes behind the scenes of a typical Cape League season.