He had one of the best seats in the ballpark Wednesday night, a clear view of North Adams starting pitcher Evan Scribner going through warmups and taking the hill to start Game 2 of the 'Cats' first-round playoff series. And it nearly made Rich Sirois' stomach turn. More »

Only two days remain in the regular season as of this writing, and the playoff picture will likely go down to the wire. Three qualifiers from each division might as well be set in stone at this point (Keene, Holyoke, Sanford from the North; Newport, Manchester, Danbury from the South), but this weekend's contests will determine whether or not there's any joy in Torrington or Concord come Monday morning. More »

All of a sudden, the end is near. The NECBL's regular season comes to a close in five short days, and plenty of movement is expected on a number of fronts before that moment. More »

NECBL commissioner Jim MacIlvane sounded like a man mixing business with pleasure this past week while describing Cardines Field, the site of Sunday's All-Star festivities. "It's a wonderful place," he said. More »

NORTH ADAMS When Chris Cates steps onto the infield at Cardines Field before the start of Sunday's 2005 NECBL All-Star game in Newport, R. I. More »

A number of the North Adams SteepleCats will spend their day off today on the team's annual skydiving excursion, conducted by Jumptown, U. S. More »

Long before it became the apple of Peter Gammons' eye, the Cape Cod Baseball League was churning out some of the best talent in all the world. Mickey Cochrane, the Hall of Fame catcher and manager who debuted with the Philadelphia Athletics in 1925, made the transition from the Boston University ranks to the pros via the Cape, as had fellow Cooperstown resident and lifetime Pirate third baseman Pie Traynor five years earlier. More »

PITTSFIELD -- Scott Virgulak can only hope he has the same fortune as North Adams SteepleCat manager as his predecessor did. The SteepleCats gave their new manager his first NECBL win last night as Ryan Craft's two-run double in the top of the eighth inning broke a tie and the Cats went on to beat the Pittsfield Dukes 5-3 last night, before 1,592 at Wahconah Park. More »

NORTHADAMS--He's been the boss in North Adams each of the last two summers, at the helm for the most successful season in history of the North Adams SteepleCats. But as of Tuesday, Marc Pavao's tenure as head coach of the city's NECBL franchise will be a thing of the past. More »

The NECBL and the Cape Cod leagues are generally thought to be the top summer repositories of college talent in the nation, and correctly so. That is, of course, with one massive exception. More »