Everyone in New England, if not Baseball, is familiar with the lure of the 2004 Boston Red Sox Curse-Busting World Champion team: the Bloody Sock. Cowboy Up. The Idiots.   But look again at ...

The North Adams SteepleCats have a new manager. The team introduced Bryan Adamski as its 10th manager at a press conference Thursday morning. Pictured from left to right: Exec. Vice President and ...

Scott Barnsby pitched in the NECBL during the summers of 1995 and 1997.  Today, Barnsby is a Regional Cross-Checker for the Cleveland Indians.For more on Scott’s personal story, click he...

Great picture of SteepleCats GM Sean McGrath with Internet Sensation Domingo Ayala at the D-Bat booth, at the ABCA (American Baseball Coaches Association) Convention in Anaheim. D-Bat is the offici...

Mary Lou is pictured here with her loving husband, Tim, and son, Conor, along with her 2011 SteepleCat son, Kyle Boudreau (U. of California at Riverside). The SteepleCats wish to extend their cond...

Here we go, the schedule has been released. The roster is filling in nicely, thanks to GM Sean McGrath. Can't be long before your 2012 North Adams SteepleCats hit the field running and hitting on t...

"I grew up in Torrington," Scott Barnsby said. "I got to play in my hometown for one summer. It was easy travel. I was able to work during downtime and pitch when I could. It was gre...

This fall the North Adams SteepleCats were awarded a Community Recognition Award by the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition for their generous donation of tickets to the Coalition. The award rea...

Missed that perfect Black Friday deal? Worry not, we have just what you need for the North Adams SteepleCats fan in your life. Last week we launched Shop SteepleCats, your source for all your Steep...

Dan Duquette, the former Red Sox and Expos' GM ...

Our Friends at the Williamstown Cal Ripken Baseball league really need your help.  Hurricane Irene dealt a devastating blow to Williamstown Cal Ripken baseball.  Bud Anderson field ...

North Adams, MA – Justin Leeson arrived in North Adams just days before the start of the 2011 regular season, fresh off a terrific sophomore year batting leadoff for the Georgetown Hoyas in t...

NORTH ADAMS -- North Adams SteepleCats President Dan Bosley would be the first to tell you that the ‘Cats certainly had an up-and-down year this past season--the SteepleCats finished the seas...

Tuesday August 2, 2011 North Adams Transcript NORTH ADAMS -- The North Adams SteepleCats’ 6-1 loss to Keene at Joe Wolfe Field on Monday night was just more of the same from a team that cou...

Monday August 1, 2011 NORTH ADAMS -- On the scoreboard, the North Adams SteepleCats are ending up the summer just like they began it. On the field, the ‘Cats have made the kind of strides t...

North Adams, MA – Game 1:   Tim Thiesing took the hill for his final start of the season, having received decisions in each of his last six starts to up his record to 3-3. After a...

Danbury, CT – Through the first five meetings between the SteepleCats and Westerners this season, Danbury had won the scoring battle 39-9. Not exactly pretty. Yet that’s what they&rsquo...

Stick "good pitching beats good hitting" into Google and you get 128,000 hits.   128,000 people can't be wrong. On a beautiful night at North Shore's historic Fraser Field, the Eas...

NORTH ADAMS -- On a great day for baseball, there were only about 40 to 45 people seated in the Joe Wolfe Field grandstand Wednesday afternoon for the first pitch. Under any other circumstances, t...

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Danbury, CT – The Westerners have shown us two things this season: 1)their offense mashes better than anyone else’s; and 2) if the offense doesn’t mash for more than a few innings...

North Adams, MA – It has developed into one of the more tightly contested rivalries in the NECBL: Vermont and North Adams. Separated by just a year in birth, the SteepleCats entered the leagu...

Groton, CT – There was a strikeout. Then another. And another. When the dust had settled, 14 in total for the SteepleCats as they fell for the third time in four tries to the nubile Mystic Sc...

North Adams, MA -- The North Adams SteepleCats of the New England Collegiate Baseball League are proud to announce that three players have been named to the Western Division team for the 2011 All-S...

Newport, RI – The sky indicated that it would be awfully tough to play baseball in Newport on Monday night. When the SteepleCats arrived at historic Cardines Field about two hours before a sc...

North Adams, MA – It had been a rather disappointing Parents Weekend up until Sunday afternoon at Joe Wolfe Field because the SteepleCats had lost two straight in contrasting fashions. On Fri...

North Adams, MA – In the first three games against division rival Danbury, North Adams had been outscored 23-5, including Tuesday night’s 8-3 loss at Rogers Park. In that game, Frank Mo...

North Adams, MA – After Wednesday night’s game against Mystic was rained out in a matter of minutes, the SteepleCats returned to Joe Wolfe Field on Friday night to start a series of wee...

Danbury, CT – The SteepleCats and the Westerners are no strangers to one another. If you were around the SteepleCats last season orfollowed them throughout all of 2010, I do not need to remin...

Cameron Copping was selected as the NECBL's pitcher of the week for the week ending July 9th.  Copping celebrated Independence Day in a big way - earning the win in a 3-0 shutout of Mystic.&nb...

Groton, CT – The goal was to finish 8-4 in what was deemed the “most important two week stretch of the regular season,” as the SteepleCats prepared to play twelve games in a row w...

North Adams, MA – When it rains, it pours. The SteepleCats have been all too familiar with that sentiment through the first half of the season. Having played more games than anyone in the NEC...

North Adams, MA – They were told not to be at the ballpark until 5:00, unless of course, they wanted to get there early and do work on their own. There would be no team-coordinated activities...

North Adams, MA – If there’s one thing SteepleCats fans have learned about freshman right-hander Brian Gilbert in the past week, it’s that the Toms River, New Jersey native is a w...

North Adams, MA – 4,253 fans showed up and walked through the gates at Joe Wolfe Field to celebrate our nation’s independence together with a baseball game. There’s nothing more A...

Keene, NH – July 4th weekend is one of the highpoints of the baseball season. A time when patriotism and fanaticism come together in a wonderful union that celebrates and embraces the past, p...

North Adams, MA – After finishing 3-1 on their four-game roadtrip, the North Adams Steeplecats returned home to Joe Wolfe Field confident that they had what it took to win in pressure situati...

Holyoke, MA – Blue Sox manager Darryl Morhardt said on Friday night’s post-game show that it’s always tough to beat a team four times in a row. It’s a common baseball adage ...

Lynn, MA – A 3-game winning streak would have been nice. It also would have been the SteepleCats longest stretch of success early in the 2011 campaign. Assistant coach Cameron McMullen put it...

Keene, NH – Fun. That’s what it’s about really. It’s the reason why dozens of players flock to the northeast from all over the country each summer to play in the New England...

Old Orchard Beach, ME – Brian Gilbert learned a lot of things this season in his first year pitching for the Seton Hall Pirates. Primarily, he learned how to pitch and compete at the collegia...

North Adams, MA – Tim Thiesing will be the first to tell you he’s not going to overpower hitters. The junior right-handed starter from Keene State College was 3-2 this past season becau...

New Bedford, MA – Drew Gadaire watched the line drive sink faster and lower. It’s been quite the week for the junior from Davidson College, who watched his average drop to .148 after an...

Laconia, NH – Back to business as usual. The SteepleCats were not taking anything for granted one vacation day removed from their second win of the season in Sanford on Wednesday night. There...

Sanford, ME -- Another night filled with cancellations around the NECBL; it’s been quite a problem lately as rain continues to ravage a good portion of New England. But there’s somethin...

Keene, NH – Everyone agreed the off-day couldn’t have arrived at a better time. In the first full week of the season, the North Adams SteepleCats had dropped to a league-worst 1-8 after...

North Adams, MA -- There was hope and promise, at least for a short time at Joe Wolfe Field on Saturday night. That’s more than anybody could have hoped for, a rather unsurprising notion give...

DURHAM, N.C. -- USA Baseball and the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) announced Friday that the 2011 Collegiate National Team and Team NECBL will play an exhibition game at Fenway Par...

North Adams, MA -- The rain poured relentlessly on defenseless Joe Wolfe Field. First pitch was well past due, and Friday night’s game between the SteepleCats and the Westerners had been push...

Holyoke, MA -- There was nobody they would have rather had on the mound in an attempt to turn things around. Trent Franzago was the tentative ace of the rotation in the days leading up to the seaso...

Mystic, CT -- “2-3 is a whole lot different than 1-4,” said left-handed reliever Bryant Guilmette as we chatted next to the first base dugout minutes before first pitch at Washington Pa...

Montpelier, VT -- In 2010, the SteepleCats beat the Mountaineers in all six regular-season meetings en route to the Western Division’s best record. Vermont, on the other hand, would endure it...

Holyoke, MA -- Gray Carden stood mostly by himself as he ate his post-game meal just behind the third base dugout at Mackenzie Stadium on Monday night. The junior right-handed closer from Leesburg,...

North Adams, MA -- After a disappointing loss in front of a record-setting crowd on Opening Day, a Saturday rain-out, and the defending NECBL champions coming to town for a Sunday matinee, things w...

The night was supposed to celebrate and reflect on ten years of tradition and summers of friendships, heartbreaks, and the joys of a hard-working baseball-loving community. When the SteepleCats cam...

Photo: Guido Knudson '10 (SDSU) who was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 28th Round this week. Twelve SteepleCats alumni that fine-tuned their skills at Joe Wolfe Field were selected in the 20...

North Adams, Mass. – With the start of the 2011 season fast approaching on Friday, June 10, the North Adams SteepleCats of the New England Collegiate Baseball League announced the addition of...

As the SteepleCats set to begin their 10th season in the NECBL and welcome another roster of aspiring professional baseball players to the northern Berkshires, many former players that have roamed ...

The North Adams SteepleCats of the New England Collegiate Baseball League announced the signings of outfielders Jacob Daniel and Justin Leeson, right-handed pitcher Trent Franzago, and third basema...

The North Adams SteepleCats of the New England Collegiate Baseball League will celebrate the beginning of their 10th season by defending their West Division Regular Season Championship on Friday, J...

North Adams, Massachusetts – The North Adams SteepleCats officially announced the completion on the coaching staff for the 2011 season.  Clayton Kuklick will serve as the team’s ma...

North Adams, Mass. – The North Adams SteepleCats of the New England Collegiate Baseball League are proud to announce that 2005 SteepleCats pitcher Evan Scribner made his major league debut on...

Monday, April 25, 2011, SteepleCats 2005 alumni, Evan Scribner, received the phone call he has been waiting when he was informed that he would be joining the San Diego Padres.  The Padres play...

NORTH ADAMS -- Daniel E. Bosley labored for 24 years as a state representative, and on Friday morning he became president -- of the North Adams SteepleCats. Bosley, who has been involved with the ...

Clayton Kuklick, an assistant coach at Division II Shepherd, has wanted to get to the NECBL for three years. Clayton Kuklick has spent several years in college baseball coaching and working in vari...

Westerners Eliminate SteepleCats Monday August 09th, 2010 NORTH ADAMS -- With Mike Hauschild’s complete game three-hitter and Brett Knief’s timely two-RBI single, the Danbury Westerne...

Late Inning Magic Sparks Westerners Over North Adams, 7-6 in Game TwoDanbury, CT - With the bases loaded and nobody out in the bottom of the ninth inning, there can only be one thing on the batter&...

 North Adams, Mass. - The North Adams SteepleCats recorded a third-straight come-from-behind win Thursday night as they defeated the Danbury Westerners 4-2 in game one of the NECBL Western D...

SteepleCats Advance in NECBL Playoffs North Adams, Mass. - The North Adams SteepleCats defeated the Keene Swamp Bats 10-5 Wednesday night at Joe Wolfe Field and won the best-of-three series agains...

Firth pitches gem, Swamp Bats take game one in Western Division Playoffs   North Adams, MA – Scott Firth (Buffalo Grove, IL/Clemson) tossed eight innings of one-run ball to guide the K...

SteepleCats Stun Swamp Bats in Ten Wednesday August 04th, 2010 Keene, N.H. - Trailing 4-2 in the top of the ninth inning, the SteepleCats rallied to tie the game and Cam Kneeland's two-run home r...

Gebler Named Co-Pitcher of the Week Monday July 26th, 2010 North Adams, Mass. - SteepleCats right-handed pitcher Tyler Gebler has been named the New England Collegiate Baseball League Co-Pitcher ...

The 2011 Mohegan Sun World Baseball Coaches' Convention - January 20 - 22 - takes place at the spectacular Mohegan Sun and will feature another blockbuster presenter line-up. You can be sure that w...

The New England Collegiate Baseball League held its inaugural Hall of Fame Tribute Dinner at the Boston Marriott Newton Grand Ballroom on Saturday. Inducted into the league’s Hall of Fame we...

Former SteepleCat, Roberto Martinez, Appears on ABC's The Bachelorette Tuesday July 06th, 2010 North Adams, MA - Former North Adams SteepleCat Roberto Martinez will bring Williamstown native Ali ...

The North Adams SteepleCats of the New England Collegiate Baseball League are proud to announce that 2005 SteepleCats outfielder Cole Gillespie made his major league debut on April 21 for the Arizo...

The North Adams SteepleCats of the New England Collegiate Baseball League will begin their quest for their first NECBL Championship in 2010 on Friday, June 4 at Joe Wolfe Field. Some changes have b...