Baseball is as American as apple pie — with a dollop of vanilla ice cream. The game is played in every city and town. It remains our national pastime.
From the S.C. Lowcountry to sunny California, from Iowa cornfields to the Massachusetts shore, children everywhere learn to play.
Some even dream of one day playing in the majors. Cape Cod, Mass., is home to one of the last amateur athletic organizations after high school that is left in America.
Its summer league was established 102 years ago with the common-sense, hard-working values that our great country was built on. As baseball is played at every level through college with aluminum bats, the best college players are invited each summer to play in the Cape Cod Baseball League . They bring hopes of showcasing their skills to Major League Baseball scouts the time-honored way — by using wooden bats.
No matter how well players have performed with aluminum, it’s a huge transition to swat a 95-mph fastball with a wooden bat. As someone who has spent a lifetime involved in sports, I have experienced many exciting thrills. None compare to what I enjoyed in 2024.
Getting to spend an entire summer living and traveling with a Cape Cod team has become life-changing. The idea to write “Cape Dreams — A Season with the Brewster Whitecaps” stemmed from my passion and a history of spending the last 50 summers attending games all over the Cape. Author Mark "Pathfinder" Epstein After authoring two books on sports, I felt it was t.
