Stadium Reviews

A day in Chatham combines all the elements of a classic Cape Cod experience – nearby beaches, a quaint downtown with shops and excellent restaurants, and a nighttime ball game with virtually the entire town on hand. In a league full of unique parks and postcard-perfect towns, Chatham offers an experience that may top them all.

The Cape Cod League’s one mainland ball field is rarely mentioned among its best parks, but it has a charm of its own. With the recent upgrades to the facility, the gate has been swung open for a repeat visit to Wareham.

While the talent in the Cape Cod League is certainly Major League caliber, the feel at the ballparks is small town. This is certainly true in Bourne, where the entire facility has been designed, built and maintained by the students at the technical high school on site.

The old saying in real estate (location, location, location) doesn’t account for everything here in Hyannis. While McKeon Park enjoys a prime spot near downtown Hyannis and Hyannis harbor, the field is listed near the bottom of most Cape League rankings. Until some serious work is done on the grounds, it will be certain to stay there.

The renovations to Stony Brook Field that have taken place over the past few years have served to both enhance and detract from the game day experience, if that makes sense. New bleachers and new amenities are certainly a plus, but enclosing the field in thick chain link fence has ruined the intimacy this field enjoyed, and has destroyed sight lines from many vantage points from around the facility.

The Cape Cod League is considered to be the premier summer collegiate baseball league in the nation. With one out of every four major leaguers today able to trace their roots to the Cape, the numbers bear out this claim. While the talent is certainly Major League, the feel at the ballparks is small town. A visit to Harwich bears this out, as you may arrive as a stranger, but you will leave as a member of the community.

While Guv Fuller Field is rarely mentioned as being one of the better fields in the Cape League, it shares many features with the most popular ballparks. Fuller Field’s location in downtown Falmouth makes it a destination location in a league filled with them. With all ten teams located within an hour of each other, there is no need to choose just one field during a visit to Cape Cod. It’s entirely possible to visit them all in a short period of time.

In a league full of postcard perfect ballparks, Lowell Park may just top them all. You'll be sure to "Have A Hit!"

Even by the laid-back, old-timey standards of the Cape League, the Y-D Red Sox set the bar for traditional game day presentation

As a member of the Firebirds' staff put it, "We have the best beaches on the Cape, we have the hill and we have the history."