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FALL GAME SCHEDULES - (PERMITTED 9AM-5PM)
Saturday Agendas* Revised 10/9/19
12:30-2:00pm - class of 2023 (FR) & 2024 (8th)
2:30-4:30pm - class of 2020 (SR), 21 (JR) & 22(SO)
(Start with 1-1 Count)
Date Day Location
Aug 3 Saturday Maehara
Aug 10 Saturday Eddie Tam
Aug 17 Saturday Maehara
Aug 24 Saturday Maehara
Aug 31 Saturday Maehara Maui High School Field
Sep 7 Saturday Maui High
Sep 14 Saturday Eddie Tam
Sep 21 Saturday Lahaina Rec CANCELED 9/16
Sep 28 Saturday Maui High
Oct 5 Saturday Maui High * NO GAME - COUNTY FAIR WEEKEND
Oct 12 Saturday Eddie Tam
Oct 19 Saturday NO GAMES
Oct 26 Saturday Maui High
Nov 2 Saturday Maui High
Nov 9 Saturday Eddie Tam
Nov 16 Saturday NO GAMES - UH Manoa Camp (8th-12th grade)
Nov 23 Saturday Maui High
Nov 30 NO GAMES - THANKSGIVING WEEKEND - Hawaii Pacific U Camp
Dec 7 Saturday Maui High - 2PM Shoreline CC (WA) Showcase Game
2019 SUMMER SCHEDULE
May 5 SUN 3:30 PM GAME Kahului
May 19 SUN 11:30AM GAME / 2PM GAME Kahului
May 26 SUN 10AM WORKOUT Lahaina
June 1 SAT 2-4 PM WORKOUT @ Kalama Park - Kihei
June 2 SUN 2PM GAME @ Eddie Tam - Makawao
June 5 WED 2-4 PM WORKOUT @ Kalama Park - Kihei
June 7 FRI 9-11AM WORKOUT @ Maui High
June 9 SUN 2-4 PM GAME @ Eddie Tam - Makawao
June 12 WED 2-4 PM WORKOUT @ Kalama Park - Kihei
June 13 THU 9-11AM WORKOUT @ Maui High
June 14 FRI 2-4 PM WORKOUT @ Lahaina
June 16 SUN 10AM GAME @ Lahaina
June 19 WED 2-4 PM WORKOUT @ Kalama Park - Kihei
June 21 FRI 9-11 AM WORKOUT @ Maui High
June 23 SUN 2PM GAME @ Maui High
June 26 WED 2-4 PM WORKOUT @ Kalama Park - Kihei
June 28 FRI 9-11AM WORKOUT @ Maui High
June 30 SUN 2PM GAME @ Eddie Tam - Makawao
July 7 SUN NO GAME
July 13 SAT 2-4 PM WORKOUT @ Maui High
July 14 SUN 10AM GAME @ Lahaina
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County of Maui
Parks & Recreation
The MNWB Developmental League participants consists of:
The Cape Cod Baseball League is a collegiate summer baseball league located on Cape Cod in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Many future Major League Baseball players have started there during their college years; MLB has provided financial support to the Cape League for over 40 years.
The Amateur's Big League
By SKIP ROZIN WSJ
Cape Cod, Mass.
Tired of big-league baseball—of paying about $50 for a typical bleacher or top-deck seat at a Yankee or Red Sox game, only to cringe among beer-swilling fans and watch superrich players unwilling to run-out ground balls? Welcome to the Cape Cod league, where admission is free, no booze is allowed and everybody hustles.
On paper, the Cape Cod Baseball League resembles most other summer leagues, where college-age athletes play 30 to 45 games. But it is during real, live baseball that this league stands out.
This is Cape Cod, one of America's favorite vacation spots, a finger of land in the Atlantic Ocean. From mid-June to mid-August, residents and tourists can enjoy golf or the beach and then watch the very best amateur players. They're here to impress major-league scouts who, equipped with note pads, stopwatches and radar guns, decide who to draft next year or how much to offer this year's crop.
"The Cape Cod League is the big leagues of amateur baseball," said Matt Merullo earlier this summer; he's an Arizona Diamondbacks scout, a former player in the Cape league and the majors. "Other leagues have good players, but the competition doesn't compare."
The league is proud of its record, with 217 alumni in the majors in 2009. But those 217 came from 17 Cape seasons; the odds are against players in any one summer. Still, the fantasy burns bright. "Historically, guys who get to the Cape not only get drafted but go to the major leagues—that's my dream," said outfielder Steve Selsky, son of a former major leaguer and now in his second Cape league season.
Few of the locals who populated the league at its birth—in 1885 or 1923, depending on your source—had such dreams. Now, with teams in Bourne, Brewster, Chatham, Cotuit, Falmouth, Harwich, Hyannis, Orleans and Yarmouth-Dennis on the Cape and Wareham across the bridge, they are rampant. Credit two changes: switching in the mid-'60s to all college players, and converting in 1985 to wood from aluminum bats, still popular in high school and college.
This combination draws scouts, who cannot accurately assess potential professional hitters or pitchers when aluminum bats are used, and are delighted to view 10 teams no more than 50 miles apart, the distance from Orleans in the east to Wareham in the west. All this attention draws the best college talent and offers a boost toward the pros; Tim Lincecum, Mark Teixeira, Kevin Youkilis, Chase Utley and Carlos Peña were all 2009 All-Stars who played here.
But this is more than about launching careers. The Cape experience separates itself from a pro-sports model that deifies talent. All players, no matter how highly touted, stay with host families, renting a spare room for $50 to $75 a week. The teams reimburse players about $250 for travel, and those needing additional expense money are offered jobs, either at the youth clinics the clubs use as fund- raisers or at a local business.
And while players are selected for their baseball skills, behavior counts. "We want players who are gentlemen and can fit in with the host family—host families are that important," says Cotuit manager Mike Roberts. "I don't want jerks."
The league, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization, could not function without community support. While field managers, coaches and umpires are paid, volunteers fill all league and team administrative posts. The more than $2 million budget comes from national and regional sponsors, club fund-raisers and donations given at each game. As it does with other wood-bat leagues, Major League Baseball gives an annual grant reported to be $100,000, a figure unconfirmed by the league.
The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce estimates that the league boosts the local economy by more than $2.6 million every summer, calculated from the nights spent and food eaten by family members and friends of players and coaches, scouts and fans who are attracted to games. Furthermore, league volunteers collect food for needy Cape families at Thanksgiving, ring Salvation Army bells at Christmas and work on the annual March of Dimes telethon. "We ask fans to come out and support us all summer long," said league president Judy Walden Scarafile. "The flip side of that is that we need to do our part to support the community."
But it starts with baseball. Games are redolent of this place and its people. While attendance early in the season is sparse—only 600 showed up for the opening game in Wareham on June 13—by July, when school is out and tourists abound, crowds often reach 1,800. Stands fill early, and at Eldredge Park in Orleans, where the preferred seating is on the terraced hill behind first base, beach chairs and towels are positioned long before the first pitch, marking places for fans who return at game time. Dress is casual; pets are common.
Nature is the X factor here. Even the hottest days end with cool evening breezes. Rain canceled 65 games last season—64 were made up—and fog rolls in thick enough to suspend play. A pair of red tailed hawks likes to dive across Veterans Field in Chatham during late innings; at Hyannis's McKeon Field, two ospreys nested in the old right-center field lights in the 1990s, prompting the club to turn them off so the hot bulbs wouldn't cause fire. (New lights were installed in 2007 with a platform for the birds.)
This is the stuff of Cape Cod baseball, where everybody plays hard but winning is secondary. "We're not here for wins and losses as much as the player's development," says John Schiffner, manager of the Chatham Anglers. Harwich manager Steve Englert agrees: "Winning is just not the end-all."
Such thinking is antithetical to big-time sports, but a good fit here. Mike Bordick played only three weeks on the Cape in 1986 before signing with Oakland and playing 14 years with four major-league teams. "Back then, you're going to the beach and playing the game you love—it's just great," he said in a telephone interview. "Later, when you get signed and money enters into it, everything changes."
Even when big-league dreams come true, a Cape league summer is an experience to be savored.
Mr. Rozin writes about sports for the Wall Street Journal.
2019 Immediate College Recruiting Needs
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“Athletic, range, speed”
P needed for 2019 Southwestern Oregon Community College NWAC in Coos Bay, OR
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3B needed for 2019 Lakeland University NCAA D3 in Plymouth, WI
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P needed for 2019 Lakeland University NCAA D3 in Plymouth, WI
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P needed for 2019 Lake Erie College NCAA D2 in Painesville, OH
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INF needed for 2019 Rainy River Community College NJCAA D3 in International Falls, MN
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P needed for 2019 Rainy River Community College NJCAA D3 in International Falls, MN
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P needed for 2019 Southwestern Illinois College NJCAA D1 in Belleville, IL
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OF needed for 2019 Southwestern Illinois College NJCAA D1 in Belleville, IL
“Looking for a corner outfielder next year that can hit with some…”
C needed for 2019 St. Cloud Tech Community College NJCAA D3 in St. Cloud, MN
“We are looking to bring in 2 catchers in the 2019 recruiting class.…”
C needed for 2019 Augsburg University NCAA D3 in Minneapolis, MN
“Defensive and athletic”
P needed for 2019 Marymount California University NAIA in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
“Strike throwing pitchers, at least in the low 80’s. Thanks”
INF needed for 2019 CCBC Dundalk NJCAA D1 in Baltimore, MD
“Looking for more hardworking players that want to further playing…”
C needed for 2019 CCBC Dundalk NJCAA D1 in Baltimore, MD
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SS needed for 2019 Finlandia University NCAA D3 in Hancock, MI
“Need a freshman stud shortstop to come in. Play in a top conference…”
P needed for 2019 Victor Valley College CCCAA in Victorville, CA
“VVC is looking for pitchers, catchers and a short stop that love to…”
INF needed for 2020 Fayetteville Technical Community College NJCAA D2 in Fayetteville, NC
“Fayetteville Tech CC Tryout JP Riddle Stadium 2823 Legion…”
SS needed for 2019 Fayetteville Technical Community College NJCAA D2 in Fayetteville, NC
“Needing Middle infielders and LHP Pitchers”
P needed for 2019 Southwestern Christian University NAIA in Bethany, OK
“We are looking to round out our 2019…”
SS needed for 2019 Barton College NCAA D2 in Wilson, NC
“Looking for MIF for play now opportunity!”
P needed for 2019 Mid Michigan Community College NJCAA D2 in Harrison, MI
“Looking to finalize our pitching depth. Desire accuracy over speed.…”
P needed for 2019 Miami University Hamilton NAIA in Hamilton, OH
“We are looking for guys sitting 84mph or above to join our staff next…”
P needed for 2019 Olive Harvey College NJCAA D1 in Chicago, IL
“Looking for a LHP. Doesn’t necessarily need to be a starter”
P needed for 2019 Maryville College NCAA D3 in Maryville, TN
“Coaches, we are looking to add a couple more 2019 arms to our…”
2B needed for 2019 Marymount California University NAIA in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
“Looking for a lock down defender first and foremost but can swing it…”
P needed for 2019 National Park College NJCAA D2 in Lake Hamilton, AR
“National Park College in Hots Springs AR are holding tryouts April…”
P needed for 2019 Northland College NCAA D3 in Ashland, WI
“Looking for strike throwers 80 mph and above. We will be able to…”
INF needed for 2020 West Virginia University NCAA D1 in Morgantown, WV
“West Virginia University Baseball just announced its Mountaineer Fall…”