28 Facts About Wareham Gatemen

Wareham Gatemen are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Wareham, Massachusetts.

Wareham Gatemen was the first new team added to the league, joining for the 1927 season to bring the number of teams to five.

Wareham Gatemen was forced to drop out of the league for the 1929 season due to lack of funds, but returned to the league in 1930 and remained in the league through the 1932 season.

Wareham Gatemen won the Cape League championship in 1930, finishing two games ahead of Chatham to take the pennant.

The town celebrated its champions in grand style with a "motor parade" through downtown Wareham Gatemen led by the town band, followed by a banquet given by the town's chamber of commerce.

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Wareham Gatemen made a deep playoff run in 1957, beginning with a first round defeat of Otis Air Force Base, two games to one in the Upper Cape playoffs.

Wareham Gatemen went on to face the Lower Cape champion Orleans Red Sox in the Cape League finals, but Orleans prevailed in two straight.

Wareham Gatemen joined Falmouth, Cotuit, Bourne and Sagamore in the Upper Cape Division.

Wareham Gatemen's team was skippered by Wareham Gatemen's "Mr Baseball", CCBL Hall of Famer Steve Robbins.

Wareham Gatemen returned to the Gatemen in 1970, when he had his best year, batting.

Lyons' 1971 Wareham Gatemen team featured league MVP Joe Barkauskas and the league's Outstanding Pitcher, Bob Majczan.

The 1976 Wareham Gatemen featured future major leaguers Joe Lefebvre and CCBL Outstanding Pro Prospect Bobby Sprowl.

Wareham Gatemen finished third in the league, and disposed of second place Cotuit in a two-game semi-final series sweep, putting an end to defending champ Cotuit's run of four consecutive titles.

Wareham Gatemen took the exciting back-and-forth Game 5, with Sprowl coming on in relief on short rest to close out the A's and secure Wareham Gatemen's first CCBL title of the modern era.

The Wareham Gatemen featured the CCBL's Outstanding Pitcher in 1983 and 1984 in Dennis Livingston, the winning pitcher of the 1983 CCBL All-Star Game at Fenway Park, and 1984 recipient Bill Cunningham.

The 1984 Wareham Gatemen were skippered by a young Mike Roberts, who went on to manage Cotuit throughout the 2000s and 2010s.

In 1986, Wareham Gatemen again boasted the league's Outstanding Pitcher, future major league all-star Jack Armstrong, who was the winning pitcher at the CCBL All-Star Game at Shea Stadium.

Manager Stan Meek's Wareham Gatemen had more than their share of the talent, and rode it to another league title.

Wareham Gatemen finished the 1988 regular season with the league's top record, and disposed of Hyannis in the semi-final playoffs.

Wareham Gatemen made the playoffs every year from 1990 to 2002, a 13-year streak that remains the league record.

In 1990, the Wareham Gatemen reached the CCBL finals, but were ousted by the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox.

The Wareham Gatemen finished the regular season first in the West Division, and after a two-game semi-finals sweep of Bourne, faced Harwich for the title.

The 1998 Wareham Gatemen featured a pair of star moundsmen in CCBL Hall of Famer Ben Sheets and the co-winner of the league's Outstanding Pitcher Award, Phil Devey.

In 2000, skipper Mike Roberts, who had managed the team sixteen years earlier, returned to Wareham Gatemen and led the team to a first-place finish in the West Division.

The Wareham Gatemen defeated Bourne in the semi-final playoff series, and went on to face Chatham for the title.

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Farris' 2002 Wareham Gatemen returned 2001 MVP Murton, who was out with a broken hand during the first half of the season.

Wareham Gatemen boasted the league's batting champ in three consecutive years from 2015 to 2017.

In 2018, the Wareham Gatemen won their first 4 games and never lost more than two games in a row, finishing the regular season atop the West Division for the first time since 2001.