Cape Gear

Searching those Internets for the cream of the Cape Cod sports memoribilia crop...

This one is an instant classic. For the uninitiated, this is the uniform of the fictional Hyannisport Presidents of the Federal Hockey League. They were one of the teams faced by the Charlestown Chiefs of Slap Shot fame.

 

 

Fans were stampeding to the Cape Cod Rodeo in 1980, and you can find the program if you look around hard enough on EBay. Try as I might, I am still unable to find the program of the corresponding Great Wyoming Chowdafest of 1986.

 

 

 If Al Capone had a summer place on Cape Cod (after 1992), he would have beaten that snitch to death with a Barnstable Bat Company birch bat....  Barnstable Bat - wood baseball bats-birch,ash,maple pro stock  .... instead of some glorified Kentucky tree branch.

Of course... just like the CCBL uniform brouhaha we spoke of in the last entry.... the accountants get involved, the Louisville Slugger people flex some power, and the Man is trying to keep Barnstable Bat Company down.

 

 

Remember... sometimes those kids you see playing for the Cape Cod Baseball League are pretty much playing at the highest level that their ability will allow. After this, it's off to wife/kids/mortgage/etc...

Sometimes, however.... you have a kid out there who is destined to tear up the Show for 15 years. Peep "The Big Hurt" Frank Thomas up above, during his barnstorming days with the Orleans Cardinals.

 

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The Cape Cod Today NCAA Basketball March Madness Tournament Bracket Game, already set up by UMassJSP (or whatever he calls himself) on Yahoo, will kick off in earnest once the tournament selection process is completed.

Word on the street... Walter is putting up a prize for the winner!

We'll keep you in touch, and help you get involved if you'd like.