Blog: Posts in “Cape Cod Film” Category

One of the great things about being a fan of the Cape Cod Baseball League is following former players as they make their way to the Major Leagues.  We filmed Touching The Game, The Story of the Cape Cod Baseball League in the summer of 2003.  It’s now four years later, and some of the players we followed have made it to the show.  In April, Wareham’s Andy Laroche was up with the Dodgers for a month, and now with rosters expanded, is back in LA.  Two other players appearing in Touching The Game are former Stanford stars Sam Fuld and Don Lucy.  Both players played for Hyannis in the CCBL, and both were called up to the majors on the same day, Fuld to the Chicago Cubs, and Lucy to the Chicago White Sox.  With expanded rosters, teams often like to give their top prospects a chance to see what the big leagues are all about.  Such was the case with former Bourne Brave Justin Maxwell.  The University of Maryland outfielder was called up by the Washington Nationals.  Not expecting to play, Justin did get into a game last week against the Florida Marlins and hit a pinch-hit grand slam in his first ML at-bat!  Justin is featured prominently in Touching The Game.

The annual Cape Cod League All-Star game will be played on Saturday 7/28/07 in Wareham, MA. This is always a big event as the Cape League’s best show their stuff in front of pro scouts and thousands of fans. The game is preceded by a home run hitting contest and other festivities. It will be televised locally on NESN (tape-delayed) and on ESPN 360 on the web. Wareham is where Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1st baseman Carlos Pena made his mark, a summer that propelled him to the 1st round of the MLB draft. This year, Pena is having his finest season in the Major Leagues. He tells his Cape League story in “Touching The Game, The Story of the Cape Cod Baseball League”. We will be at the All-Star game selling our DVDs all day long!

Welcome to our new Touching The Game web site. With the success of our first film “Touching The Game, The Story of The Cape Cod Baseball League”, we have decided to try and produce a series of films about the world’s best amateur baseball. We are currently in production on our new film about baseball in Alaska. Stay tuned for updates in the coming months on how the film is progressing, and new video clips as well.

We also now have an expanded section on our award-winning documentary on the Cape Cod Baseball League, and will regularly provide updates on the film and the players that were featured, as well as news about and links to the league and its ever-expanding universe.

We hope you enjoy the new web site, and feel free to contact us with comments, ideas, or suggestions!

It’s been 3 years since we released Touching The Game, The Story of the Cape Cod Baseball League, and we are still receiving compliments on our work. The documentary has won a couple film festival awards and tremendous critical acclaim, and the DVD is still selling consistently on the web site, at the ballparks on the Cape and through selected retailers.

If you are here deciding on whether to purchase the film, take a look at our video clips section for the trailer and a couple other clips from the film.

CCBL fans love to follow the progress of past players as they make their way to the Major Leagues. We now have two pages of the site dedicated to the players in our film (MLB Players and Cape Players), and actually had our first featured player from the summer of 2003 make it to the Majors (Wareham’s Andy Laroche was called up by the Dodgers in May).

We will continue to have updates on the players and the success of the film in coming months.