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The premier amateur baseball league in the nation since 1885, the Cape League embarks this June on one of its most exciting slates to date including the Open CCBL Tryout, US Military All-Star Game, the annual Cape League All-Star game, special "Scouts Days" and even more memorabilia at the Cape Cod Baseball League Hall of Fame exhibit at Heritage Plantation in Sandwich.
Opening Day is scheduled for Friday, June 15, 2007. Exciting changes and additions also await Cape League fans on the league’s official web site. Now entering its sixth season offering free, daily updated statistics to fans and media alike, the web site last summer had more than 17 million hits. An expanded archives section, including access to more than 20,000 high quality photographs from the 2000 - 2006 seasons by SportsPix, printable game schedule, and updated analysis of 198 CCBL Alumni In the Majors 2005. One in seven MLB players, played in the Cape League. In the June 2006 First-Year Player Draft, 194 CCBL Alumni were drafted, with 16 players chosen in the first and supplementary rounds. According to Baseball America, 1057 CCBL Alumni were listed on Professional baseball playing rosters in 2005. To navigate around the web site, please note the links on the home page are only the beginning. On the left-hand side of the site is a scroll down menu chock full of interactive goodies and pages of data vital to any and all amateur baseball aficionados. Links to each of the Cape League's 10 franchise team web sites, camp and clinic information, up-to-the hour press releases and original stories, dozens of photo archive pages from seasons past and much more await those who simply can't get enough of the premier college baseball circuit in the nation. From Major League legends Pie Traynor, Mickey Cochrane, Red Rolfe, Carlton Fisk, Thurman Munson, Mike Flanagan, Jeff Reardon,
to current standouts Jeff Bagwell, Craig Biggio, Jeromy Burnitz, Sean Casey, Darin Erstad, Nomar Garciaparra, Mark Mulder, Todd Helton, Frank Thomas, Jason Varitek and Barry
Zito, the Cape League has proven to the best playing experience for top Major League talent since the turn of the century. In
2007 ? Suffice it to say, the CCBL will once again prove it is the place where
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