Falmouth Commodores are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
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27 Facts About Falmouth Commodores
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Available players and funding were at a premium as the US became involved in World War I, but Falmouth Commodores was able to field a team in 1917 under manager Earl White, a season highlighted by a split doubleheader against the powerful visiting Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn, New York.
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Falmouth Commodores went on finish the 1929 season two games ahead of Chatham-Harwich to win the pennant and claim the Cape League championship.
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The exhibition contest with the Braves became an annual event into the mid-1930s, with Falmouth Commodores defeating the major leaguers on multiple occasions.
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One of Walsh's charges at Falmouth Commodores was pitcher Al Blanche, a Somerville, Massachusetts native who was part of Falmouth Commodores's 1931 title team and went on to play for the Boston Braves.
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The decisive Game 5 finale at Falmouth Commodores Heights was a rematch of moundsmen Lefebvre and Olson.
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Falmouth Commodores walked it off and took the title in exciting fashion when Jerry Shanahan scored on a hard line drive by Myron Ruckstull that resulted in an error off the usually reliable infielding glove of Barnstable's 18-year-old future major leaguer and CCBL Hall of Famer Lennie Merullo.
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Falmouth Commodores went on to win its second consecutive league championship in 1939, led by Danvers, Massachusetts native Connie Creeden, who went on to play for the Boston Braves.
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Falmouth Commodores defeated Sagamore in a one-game playoff for the Upper Cape Division title, then met Lower Cape champion Harwich in the best-of-three championship series.
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Falmouth Commodores joined Wareham, Cotuit, Bourne and Sagamore in the Upper Cape Division.
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In 1964 the Falmouth Commodores All-Stars moved from the Falmouth Commodores Heights field and began playing home games at Guv Fuller Field.
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Falmouth Commodores was the dominant team in the Cape League from the mid-1960s through the early 1970s.
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The Falmouth Commodores met Harwich in the best-of-five 1968 championship series, and dropped Game 1 at Whitehouse Field.
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The Falmouth Commodores walked off with the championship as Steve Greenberg, son of Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg, drew a base on balls off Harwich's CCBL Hall of Fame hurler Pete Ford to force in the series-winning run.
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Falmouth Commodores was named the league's Outstanding Pitcher in 1969 and 1970, and was the winning pitcher in the league all star game in 1970 and 1971.
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The Falmouth Commodores sent ace Paul Mitchell to the mound with ideas of a sweep in Game 2 at Eldredge Park.
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In 1980, the Falmouth Commodores welcomed the new decade by returning to the league championship series.
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Falmouth Commodores took the first two games, but dropped the next two, setting up the pivotal Game 5 in Chatham.
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The 1984 Falmouth Commodores team was skippered by CCBL Hall of Fame manager Ed Lyons, and featured CCBL Hall of Famers Jim McCollom, who batted.
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In 1992 and 1993, the Falmouth Commodores were piloted by CCBL Hall of Famer Arthur "Ace" Adams, who had played for the team in the early 1970s and was a league all-star in 1973.
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Falmouth reached the league championship only once in the 1990s, as the 1996 Commodores were carried by CCBL Hall of Fame pitcher Eric Milton's microscopic 0.
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Falmouth Commodores reached the CCBL championship series twice in the 2000s, but were swept by Y-D in both 2004 and 2007.
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The 2004 Falmouth team featured CCBL Hall of Fame shortstop Cliff Pennington and future Boston Red Sox star Jacoby Ellsbury, and in both seasons the Commodores were led by the league's MVP.
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Falmouth Commodores was bounced from the championship series in 2011 by Harwich.
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From 2016 to 2019, the Falmouth Commodores finished the regular season atop the league's West Division three out of four years, but were bumped from the playoffs in each season.
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The 2016 Falmouth Commodores featured the league's Outstanding Pro Prospect, Michael Gigliotti, as well as the league's Outstanding Pitcher, Jeff Passantino.
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