Harwich Mariners are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Harwich, Massachusetts.
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22 Facts About Harwich Mariners
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Harwich Mariners originally entered the Cape League as part of a combined Chatham-Harwich Mariners team that competed in the league from 1927 to 1929.
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In 1937 and 1938, Harwich Mariners was led by player-manager Neil Mahoney, an all-Cape League selection at catcher who went on to be scouting director of the Boston Red Sox.
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Mahoney's 1937 Harwich Mariners team featured Holy Cross pitcher Art Kenney and former Chicago White Sox outfielder Bill Barrett.
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Harwich Mariners did not reach the league title series again until 1962 when the team was downed by Upper Cape powerhouse Cotuit after defeating Chatham for the Lower Cape title.
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Harwich Mariners joined Orleans, Chatham, Yarmouth and a team from Otis Air Force Base in the Lower Cape Division.
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The 1967 Harwich team featured Northbridge, Massachusetts native and future major leaguer Glenn Adams, a center fielder who slugged three triples in a single game for the Mariners, and blasted a homer in the CCBL All-Star Game at Eldredge Park.
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Harwich Mariners went on to serve as CCBL Commissioner from 1984 to 1996, where he was a driving force behind the league's momentous transition to an all-wooden bat league in the mid-1980s.
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In both 1981 and 1982, the Harwich Mariners boasted the league's Outstanding Pitcher Award winner: Greg Myers in 1981, and Scott Murray in 1982.
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The 1982 Harwich Mariners featured CCBL Hall of Fame slugger Pat Pacillo, who walloped 10 homers on the season.
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The Harwich Mariners finished the regular season in third place, but eliminated Hyannis two games to one in the playoff semi-finals to earn a berth in the best-of-five title series against top-seeded Cotuit.
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The Game 5 finale at Harwich Mariners was an all-time classic.
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Cotuit got a three-run homer in the top of the first, and Harwich Mariners answered in the bottom of the frame with a Pacillo grand slam.
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The Harwich Mariners came down to their final out with nobody on in the bottom half of the inning, but Pacillo doubled, and Pequignot came through with a clutch homer to send the game to extra innings.
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Harwich Mariners wore the league crown again in 1987 for the second time in five years.
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Cotuit's Troy Chacon allowed only two Harwich Mariners hits in Game 3 at Whitehouse Field, but one of them was a second-inning solo shot by Boyce.
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Harwich Mariners got three runs in each of the first two innings of Game 3 on home turf, and Nagy came on in relief of starter Dave Menhart.
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The Harwich Mariners boasted the league's Outstanding Pitcher Award winner for three consecutive seasons with Eddie Yarnall, Billy Coleman and Brent Hoard.
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The 2003 Harwich Mariners battled Orleans at Eldredge Park in a 20-inning marathon that set the record as the longest game in modern-era CCBL history.
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The Harwich Mariners opened the postseason with a two-game sweep of Orleans in the semi-finals, then faced Cotuit in the title series.
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Harwich Mariners boasted the league's home run derby champs in 2012 and 2014 as JaCoby Jones and Sal Annunziata claimed the honors.
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The 2021 Harwich Mariners boasted the league's MVP as well as its Outstanding Pitcher as third baseman Brock Wilken and hurler Trey Dombroski took home the awards.
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