Brewster Whitecaps

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Brewster Whitecaps

Team Information
League	Cape Cod Baseball League
Division	Eastern Division
Location	Brewster, MA
Ballpark	Whitecaps Field
History
League Championships (1)	2000
Post-Season Division Championships (2)	1994, 2000
Regular Season Division Championships (4)	1996, 1998, 2000, 2003 (tie)
Last Season	22-19-3 (47 points) T-3rd Eastern Division
Management
President	Claire Gradone
General Manager	Ned Monthie
Field Manager	Bob Macaluso

The Brewster Whitecaps are an amateur baseball team based in Brewster, MA. The team is a member of the Cape Cod Baseball League and plays in the league's Eastern Division. Brewster currently plays its home games at Whitecaps Field, Brewster's new field which opened in 2006^[1]. Like other Cape League teams, the Whitecaps are funded through merchandise sales, donations, and other fundraising efforts at games such as fifty-fifty raffles.

Last season, Brewster finished in third place in the Cape Cod Baseball League's Eastern Division. The Whitecaps' last playoff appearance came in 2006, where they lost the Eastern Division Championship Series two games to one to the eventual Cape Cod Baseball League Champion Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox. The Whitcaps won their only league championship in 2000, when they finished twelve games above .500 and swept the Hyannis Mets in the championship series.

1 History
2 Famous Alumni
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

The Whitecaps first season in the Cape League was 1988 when both they and the Bourne Braves were inaugurated into the league^[2]. Brewster would qualify for the post-season the next year, when they lost in the Eastern Division Championship Series to Yarmouth-Dennis two games to none. Brewster would again be eliminated in the Division Championship Series in 1992 by the Chatham Athletics.

Brewster's first championship series appearance came in 1994 after defeating the Orleans Cardinals in the Division Championship Series two games to one. The Whitecaps would, however, be swept by the Western Division Champion Wareham Gatemen that year, two games to none.

Brewster finally broke through in 2000 when they claimed the league championship after winning 28 games that season. In the playoffs, Brewster defeated Chatham two games to one to advance to the championship series, where they swept the Hyannis Mets in two games. This title in 2000 remains the Whitecaps only Cape League championship to date.

Brewster's recent success in the regular season has not translated into post-season success. Though they have qualified for the playoffs in three of the last five years, Brewster has been unable to get past the Eastern Division Championship Series, losing each year to the eventual Cape League champions.^[3]