Welcome to the official web site of the Cape Cod Baseball League
and the 2009 Cape League season.

    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 one or more games every night of the season, the Open CCBL Tryout, two US Military All-Star Games, the annual Cape League All-Star game and even more memorabilia at the Cape Cod Baseball League Hall of Fame exhibit at the JFK Museum, Hyannis .


The 2008 CCBL Champion Harwich Mariners defeated Cotuit
to win the Cape League title.
swilson / CCBL 2008

    Join us in Opening Day ceremonies as the Cape League schedule matches up last season's championship series teams with Cotuit at Harwich on Thursday 11 June 2009.

    Exciting changes and additions also await Cape League fans on the league’s official web site. Now entering its eighth season offering free, daily updated statistics to fans and media alike, the web site last summer had more than 17 million hits and over 725,000 visits.

     An expanded archives section, including access to more than 200,000 high quality photographs from the 2000 - 2008 seasons by SportsPix, printable game schedules, and an analysis of the 212 CCBL Alumni In the Majors 2007. One in seven current MLB players, played in the Cape League. In the June 2008 First-Year Player Draft, 218 CCBL alumni were drafted, with 19 CCBL alumni players chosen in the first and supplementary rounds. According to Baseball America, 1071 CCBL Alumni were listed on Professional baseball playing rosters in 2006. 

    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.

    The Cape Cod Baseball League celebrates its 125th season in 2009 and continues to provide fans with competitive baseball entertainment, where the country’s top college players display multi-dimensional skills in their purest form.

     After being populated mostly by GI’s returning from World War I in 1919 and WW II in the late 1940’s, the CCBL continued to be populated by a combination of local and regional college players until 1963, when it became officially sanctioned by the NCAA.

     Following a decade (1974-84) of using aluminum bats, the Cape League became the first collegiate summer league to return to wood in 1985 and became even more popular with major league scouts and college players and coaches.

     With over 1,000 alumni performing at all levels of professional baseball in 2008, a record total 212 former Cape Leaguers populate major league rosters, including Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum (Harwich ’05), slugging first baseman Mark Texeira (Orleans ’99), AL Manager of the Year Eric Wedge (Yarmouth-Dennis ’88), AL Comeback Player of the Year Carlos Pena (Harwich ‘96/Wareham ’97) former Cy Young Award winner Barry Zito (Wareham ’97 & ’98), former AL MVP Frank Thomas (Orleans ’88), former AL batting champion Nomar Garciaparra (Orleans ’93), former NL Fireman of the Year Billy Wagner (Brewster ‘92) and New York Yankees manager Joe Giardi (Cotuit '84).

     The amateur talent in the Cape League is second to none. Cape Cod played a prominent role in the development of rosters for the 2007 World Series. Twenty players honed their skills in the Cape Cod Baseball League. 

     Among the 2007 World Champion Boston Red Sox who played in the Cape Cod Baseball League are World Series MVP Mike Lowell (Chatham ’94), team captain Jason Varitek (Hyannis ’91 & ’93), former Gold Glove first baseman Kevin Youkilis (Bourne ’00) and speedy centerfielder Jacoby Ellsbury (Falmouth ’04). 

     Top CCBL alumni performing for the 2007 NL champion Colorado Rockies included: All-Star slugger Todd Helton (Orleans ’94), hard-hitting catcher Omar Quintanilla (Cotuit ’02), slugging third baseman Garrett Atkins (Cotuit ’98-’99) and hurler Ryan Speier (Bourne ’01).

     The list of Cape League alumni totals some 760 names, including those of Baseball Hall of Famer Harold “Pie” Traynor (Falmouth ’19), former New York Yankee greats Red Rolfe (Orleans ’30) and Thurman Munson (Chatham ’67), Major League managers Bobby Valentine (Yarmouth ’67) and Buck Showalter (Hyannis ’76), Cy Young Award winners Steve Stone (Chatham ’68) and Mike Flanagan (Falmouth ’72), Firemen-of-the-Year Wayne Granger (Sagamore ’62) and Jeff Reardon (Cotuit ’74-76), Major League scout Lennie Merullo (Barnstable ’35), slugging first baseman Jeff Bagwell (Chatham ’87-’88) and Craig Biggio (Y-D ’86), the only former Cape Leaguer to amass over 3,000 hits in the major leagues.

     The Cape League is recognized as the best amateur summer leagues in the country by college coaches, as well as professional baseball scouts. Players from around the USA and all college divisions are recruited to play in the ten-team loop.

     Seeing your favorite team is never a problem. Teams are located in Bourne, Brewster, Chatham, Cotuit, Falmouth, Harwich, Hyannis, Orleans, Wareham, and Yarmouth-Dennis. The Cape League relies on communities for their support. 

     From housing and jobs for the players, to volunteer work within the league itself, the league could not enjoy its growing success without a total team effort. The hard work by each franchise pays off, as the ultimate reward is to see the stars of tomorrow take the field on Cape Cod today.