The Last Best Baseball League

Every summer, along with the tourists, a bunch of the nation's best college baseball players make a trip to Cape Cod. Unlike the tourists, they are not there to enjoy the sand and the surf (well, maybe a little bit); they are there hoping to launch their professional baseball careers. They come to play in the Cape Cod Baseball League - a league that has come to be a key proving ground for baseball talent. One out of every six players in major league baseball today played in the Cape Cod League, including Red Sox stars Nomar Garciaparra and Jason Veritek. The story of one season on the Cape is told in a new book, The Last Best League, by Jim Collins. Jim is a writer form Orange, NH who spent the summer of 2002 following the Cape Cod League team the Chatham A's.