1 10 1 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/32209/archive/files/a789bb07673054deb87a7a4b557904b6.pdf?Expires=1773878400&Signature=WQZ%7ElggcSK8uBDsuB-K3DijtaidImQzfRcZ64qEJtkgFoSqgwkw6plbVCIKGKLtpnYlaHtNoigioae6lye%7EZvVQpk8IRdqyO78Nzy5EruuQez4lKgVulNyHYIpE3eReyhCQWkfKVOuN0-AN2fPoQemDRDA-HmfH11uorktoi7edoXAvKUcFkfXY4kQbhv%7EkcR2AbYEd%7El-OPEdNnrPWPhtJX7aJjY1ArU3Hr3DA-txYQp71tk3Is94kl-STqhpmTIzorNgG20ST0Pl3YLKeG0-BbepRWmZ0fS9b6PAFKCesXCWE-%7ENUIilCUqGAkPnnStUkkiDVM%7ElaE7O0-K1N5xQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM a458154e8b162bd93b533f8904b3b42e PDF Text Text Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth Postcards from Falmouth Oral History Transcript Recorded: April 26, 2024 Oral Historians: Bob Curtis, Chuck Sturtevant Interviewer: Troy Clarkson Topic: Falmouth Commodores Note: The right column references postcards by identifiers searchable in the Digital Commonwealth online collection. 0:46 0:53 1:01 1:06 1:12 1:18 1:23 1:29 1:36 1:42 hello this is Postcards from Falmouth and I'm your host Troy Clarkson this series looks at postcards from all over our community and today we're going to discuss a postcard that depicts probably one of the most iconic memorable and memory filled locations in our community this postcard is of the ballfield at Falmouth Heights and one of the longest standing activities since that ball field was constructed over a 100 years ago is the playing of baseball so today I have with me two very special people from Falmouth's hometown team the Falmouth Commodores we have President Bob Curtis and General Manager Chuck Sturtevant so welcome gentlemen it's great to be with you today thank thank you Troy good to be here and I know both of you have put in uh many years Chuck it seems like a lifetime 39 39 years that's almost as long as I've been alive uh to devoted to the Falmouth Commodores in the Cape League and so today with the three of us we'll discuss the postcard but really as it 1 #falmouthheightsballpark Hunt_Heights_Bldg_267 #famouthcommodores #capecodbaseballleague �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 1:48 1:54 2:00 2:08 2:17 2:23 2:29 2:35 2:41 2:48 2:55 3:03 3:08 3:14 3:20 3:26 relates to what I call Falmouth's hometown team the Falmouth Commodores so Chuck why don't you start we'll talk a little bit about the team in a minute but I think your involvement is so deep and so lengthy just share your experience with the Commodores and why after all these years that passion still burns well in 1986 I went to the game and donated $100 for game baseballs and uh Don Nelson who was the general manager and uh Abner Briggs convinced me to join the board and everything and it's all been uphill ever since and I've thoroughly enjoy it uh I love the game of baseball but I love what we provide for the fans in Falmouth and Cape League wide as well that that's a great segue I think Bob to ask you as the current president of the team many people say that the quality of the baseball in the Cape Cod Baseball League is among the best if not the best summer college baseball in the United States and so talk to us a little bit about your service with the Commodores and about the quality of the baseball that you're able to to oversee you know I got involved in 2007 my wife and I became a host family and uh we had two gentlemen from Louisiana who have you know never been in the Northeast before and um and we we just love the involvement with the players and and both of these gentlemen went on to get drafted and one pretty high and um um but then we got further involved and my wife became a board member and and I was uh working off-Cape commuting and I 2 #donnelson #abnerbriggs �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 3:34 3:39 3:45 3:50 3:56 4:02 4:09 4:15 4:22 4:28 4:36 4:41 4:48 4:53 4:59 eventually became head of fundraising and around 2013 and it's just evolved and your son and my son he has his career thanks to the Commodores uh he was an intern uh for the the team um for a couple of years then he was an intern for the Cape League and then um a very well-known and person I have an enormous amount of respect for Matt Hyde from #baseballscouting the New York Yankees he's their regional scout took him under his wing and he was a scouting intern for the Yankees for a year and he ended up going to Fordham that was kind of a it worked out ended up working at Yankee Stadium for two years and cut to the short after an internship with the Red Sox and the Giants he's now a crosschecker for the Toronto Blue Jays for the whole Northeast and uh he wouldn't he'd be sitting in some cubicle doing an Excel spreadsheet if it wasn't for the Falmouth Commodores so that's an amazing story and you were able to share that with me at the 100th anniversary celebration of the Commodores not too long ago so this is for either of for both of you and uh at that celebration the community and people that were involved in the team #falmouthcommodorescentennialcelebration were able to celebrate 100 years of Commodores baseball in Falmouth Chuck and that's 100 years of anything uh is is a big deal but for America's pastime and that quality of baseball to be going on right here for a hundred years is is pretty noteworthy we've been very lucky uh the players that have been selected to come play for us over the years uh and are coming this year uh really makes 3 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 5:07 5:14 5:20 5:26 5:33 5:40 5:48 5:54 5:59 6:05 6:10 6:16 6:21 6:28 6:33 6:41 a big difference and currently we do have two Commodores that are in line to be the top within the top five of the draft this year um and we're looking forward to it and hopefully in one and two speaking of that I'm sure it's in my notes here somewhere but one of the mottos is “where the stars of tomorrow shine today” or something like that right I paid attention over the years uh but that's true and there are so many former Commodores who have played or do play in in the Major Leagues and have made amazing contributions to the sport yep no question I we've had we've hosted 38 players over the last 16 years and some some of them were temporaries and uh but we've had 38 different people rotate in um all of the full-time players have been drafted and we've had about six that have made it into the Major Leagues and and there's still a few in the Major Leagues so it's it's a pipeline uh it's a tough pipeline it's not as easy to get to the majors as people may think once you're drafted but it it's with definitely 350 players right now uh in Major League Baseball played in the Cape League I mean that's amazing that's absolutely amazing that's just incredible so in Falmouth and in nine other communities on the Cape uh and and Wareham we'll give them a dispensation just for the purposes of this discussion uh but you can go and in Falmouth there's no charge just a bucket and you put in whatever you can and you see some of the 4 #majorleaguebaseball �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 6:48 6:57 7:04 7:12 7:19 7:25 7:30 7:37 7:46 7:53 7:58 8:05 8:11 8:18 highest quality uh baseball in the nation one thing that I've heard a lot over the years is that people stress that this is a wooden bat league uh so and that means something in collegiate baseball but explain to our viewers Chuck what that means the right now colleges use metal bats uh and metal bats for a hitter can be very beneficial to them uh they can get maybe some home runs and get higher averages and so on and I used to tell all the guys when they first came in you take 250 points off your college average and that's where you're going to start and you may end up that way because with the wood bat it makes makes a difference and the pitchers love it because they can get away with the inside pitch uh the bat’ll break usually with a metal bat they can get a cheap hit and so it has made a difference over the years pretty pretty amazing um so going back to the postcard uh and that that image that our viewers saw at the beginning there's a person that all three of us knew who when the #falmouthall-stars Falmouth All-Stars played uh on the Heights ball field there he was a little kid that used #alirish to come here for the summer and watch those games and uh Al Irish was with us for about a 100 years yes he was and and was a fan of the Commodores for almost all of those hundred years so uh talk to us a little bit about Al Irish in particular but relationships like that that the Commodores are able to develop 5 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 8:24 8:31 8:39 8:44 8:51 8:59 9:06 9:11 9:17 9:23 9:30 9:36 9:44 9:51 9:57 10:05 with permanent residents with summer residents with visitors I mean that's the real value isn't it the connections that the team and the players and you as volunteers are able to make with the community well Al uh was also the historian for not only the team but the league and uh but also part of the Historical Society in Falmouth and he #falmouthhistoricalsociety collected all the literature the books and everything over the years but I can remember him telling me how he sat there on the Heights beach and saw Pie Traynor play baseball a Major League Hall of Famer back then and he was just in awe over it and just to see his eyes light up when he told the story uh I'll never forget it I'll never forget it and all those stories kind of went with him I kept saying to him Al you've got to write a book please and I don't think it ever got done I at least had the privilege of sitting with him uh later in his life but when he was certainly still sharp enough to to bring back some of those memories and I was able to write a column about them but uh Bob your memories of probably one of the most iconic fans in Cape Cod Baseball League history Al Irish oh Al yeah I mean his um bucket which he he would be standing at the gate collecting the donations and there's a bucket at the Falmouth Museum on the Green with it says “Falmouth Commodores Donations” and that was his bucket and um he's you know amazing history with the league started watching games when he was 5 years old back in the 1920s and and um and yeah great long-term long-term fan and uh so so related to the bucket I 6 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 10:12 10:19 10:27 10:35 10:42 10:47 10:53 10:59 11:04 11:09 11:15 11:24 11:30 11:37 11:44 11:50 think it's important for people to know too that the the team is supported by the community right the I think each team operates as its own nonprofit entity so the teams really rely on the generosity of fans and local businesses and local donors to support the the operations when I first started in '86 our budget for that year was $118,000 and we had a lot of two-way guys we paid half the travel costs for the guys to come here but now the budget's $250 $300,000 350 this year 350 this year so it's a lot of money it's a lot of money that needs to be raised and fortunately we get the support of all the businesses town and without that I don't know what we would do yeah yeah no it's the donations and sponsorships are are such a key part of our revenue and we get a little bit of money at the gate at the donations it's not it's not trivial but it but most of it is through donations and sponsorships from the businesses and because they're college athletes though it's important to know right that that 350 is for bats and uniforms and the coaching staff but the players still play for free right that’s correct and we have 80 volunteers and and that's important talk a little bit about that because as a former board member myself I know the effort that it takes uh to go into putting a game on the field well you know when the season ends in August and and uh by we take a month off and then November we have committees that start meeting we have a housing committee because the one of the biggest log jams is being able to find housing for some of these players and um we're very 7 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 11:58 12:05 12:11 12:19 12:25 12:31 12:37 12:43 12:49 12:54 13:01 13:06 13:13 13:20 fortunate uh we've got a great committee um we've already got beds committed for this year to cover uh the 30 beds that we need uh we have a fundraising committee which I'm involved with we have a Fan Relations Committee which does a lot of the PR work or communications with the uh town and local press but we we have people that are volunteer for the the gate and um and just helping us in different different types of things but we have 80 people that are totally volunteers and that's this team is run by volunteers and the board's all volunteers and the manager gets a the field manager gets a very um small stipend and um barely I don't know if coverers the tolls to get down here but the um uh but it is and this is true with all the other teams is that they're all volunteer teams but we have an enormous effort and I don't think people realize how much time and planning most of the work for the season is being done now it starts November December right up until the season Once the season starts everybody can kind of sit back and enjoy the baseball because a lot of the work has been done but the but yeah it's a huge effort and we have tremendous #falmouthchamberofcommerce community support we work close with the Chamber of Commerce um and the companies are very generous they're very supportive and uh you know we're just we're in a really good spot here and we're always looking for younger volunteers to come on because I'm not sure how many more years I can but you 8 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 13:27 13:34 13:40 13:46 13:51 13:57 14:02 14:07 14:15 14:20 14:28 14:35 14:42 14:50 14:56 15:02 15:09 know it's important to get the younger generations involved absolutely and this is the kind of organization where multigenerational uh boards are a good thing and lots of different perspectives and uh you mentioned the your son's internship and I think that's important to mention as well because the Commodores are not only an opportunity for collegiate ball players to come here and hone their craft but you provide educational opportunities for so many young people that then can transition into careers in professional sports and baseball Chuck talk a little bit about that because there are so many internship opportunities as for people that don't play baseball yep well it not only is it the players but even the coaches the assistant coaches now open themselves up to higher paying jobs and professional jobs and so on but then you have broadcasters writers uh game day operations interns and so on and they all are so critical to us functioning and they get recognized by the professionals that come in the scouts and so on I tell all the interns at the first meeting I say get a small business card made up of yourself with your name and contact info because you'd be surprised you give it to a scout they may remember you better that way and that's all it takes and we've gotten several of our interns over the last few years have gotten jobs with professional teams not only just baseball but football and so on so it's amazing this year we'll have 33 interns and I think uh and one of the things we've invested in this year was really state-of-the-art broadcast equipment and and because we 9 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 15:16 15:24 15:31 15:36 15:43 15:48 15:53 16:00 16:07 16:14 16:22 16:28 16:34 16:41 16:48 will be broadcasting nationally this year #hudl on Hudl app all the Cape teams will be playing and and um and the fact that we're hosting the All-Star game #nesn that's going to be broadcast on NESN and I just found out on July 17th um we are going to broadcast a Falmouth game versus Hyannis on NESN but the kids we get we recruit for interns for the broadcasting and media they're the best in the country and they're working uh you UCLA you know a lot of the high-end Syracuse a lot of the high-end media development uh colleges and we even bought a drone this year so that we can do videos uh and we'll be broadcasting those of some of this businesses and some of the local nonprofits also that we work with over the things but this is all done by the interns and the interns run the game day operations they make sure everything works and so it's they were totally invaluable here it it just touches so many parts of the community and Bob you just mentioned yet another tentacle of the Commodores in the community uh you take time uh there's 20 home games at each home game to highlight another organization that's doing good work in the community so you not only put a product out on the field but you make sure you're you're connected and connection these days is so important that's what I wrote about in my column today but speaking of nonprofits uh you highlight nonprofits and partner with them so that they too can have exposure to your support in your fan base absolutely we're working this year uh with a clean Cape organization and so 10 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 16:56 17:02 17:09 17:16 17:21 17:28 17:33 17:39 17:46 17:52 17:59 18:04 18:12 18:19 18:25 18:31 18:39 that they're coming by they have establishing a relationship with the league where we're one of three teams that have signed up where they will come by and pick up all of our recyclable uh bottles cans and whatever after every game and this is being funded by the Massachusetts Beverage Association International Grant uh but we also work with the library uh we have a sponsor who's sponsoring us because they saw that some of our players were over at the library reading to kids you know I mean it's it's you know so it there the tentacles do go pretty far and um we work with the Woods Hole uh Film Festival and some of the other local institutions so we try to be a do our community service and and you sure do uh and speaking of service Chuck so um for a quarter maybe a fifth uh of those hundred years there's been a consistency in the dugout and uh you know Jeff #jefftrundy Trundy is so interwoven uh into the name Falmouth Commodores uh and he's been such an important part of the team as as the coach for uh more than two decades just talk a little bit about what Jeff Trundy has meant to the Commodores 28 years ago I hired him from Cotuit as an assistant coach and two years he was an assistant in Falmouth and then when Coach Shapiro left to go to Hartford to be the head coach there he had to give up his position and and so then I made Jeff the head coach and he's been here ever since um and if you've ever had the opportunity to talk to him uh he's a very warm intelligent person but he cares 11 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 18:47 18:53 19:00 19:07 19:14 19:19 19:25 19:34 19:39 19:45 19:52 20:00 20:06 20:13 20:18 20:24 about the game and the players and you ask any of the players they would rather play for him than half the other coaches in the league because of what he does and how he represents this and that's what it's all about I had the privilege of getting to know Jeff uh in one of his first years here as the coach when uh I also had the privilege of flipping #ronbraga burgers for Ron Braga uh when Ronnie had the the concession and boy we have a lot of laughs but that's when I got exposed to the humanity and the humility of Jeff Trundy and I saw with his interactions we would feed all the players after the game and seeing how he interacted with the players uh and not that that winning was more important than teaching uh but certainly foremost in his mind was helping to shape the young men that were on the field uh because they won't all be playing baseball forever right and so their experiences and the learning that they have here is really really important uh so in addition to all of that uh the Commodores also do a lot with the #youthbaseballclinics youth in the town Bob and all their youth clinics and opportunities for Falmouth youth or kids that are here for the summer to to learn about we have one of the most successful uh clinic programs uh we get around 200 kids signed up uh ages 5 to 14 I want to say we have them in different tiers so by based on age and capability um but it is an extremely popular program um and we and it's just been very successful this is something the players actually mentor they mentor these kids and um and and some of them 12 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 20:29 20:36 20:44 20:52 20:59 21:07 21:12 21:18 21:26 21:35 21:40 21:46 21:53 21:58 22:06 22:12 22:18 22:23 22:29 build relationships with these players and they stay in touch after the season and over the years and so um so we're very involved in that and uh and we do work with some of the youth baseball teams uh we're having a police uh organizational team come and play in July on our field with with us and our players and uh so we we really try to interact with the youth as much as we can yeah the uh the field of of course is called Guv Fuller Field after uh one of #guvfullerfield the local recreational legends uh here in Falmouth but the baseball diamond itself has a particular name Chuck tell us about that Arnie Allen Diamond uh I #arnieallendiamond had the #arnieallen very privilege of having Arnie as my equipment manager for till he was 48 years old and I gave him a uniform uh he became really a part of the team and he was uh de developmental uh special needs and but he give the shirt off your back and unfortunately he had esophagus cancer and he died um and we the family had nothing and and uh we the Commodores paid for his funeral and uh he was buried with all the signed bats I got from all the teams and hats and everything in his casket with him and that's where he is today Arnie zest for life I had the privilege of knowing him for a while as well just as somebody around town and his zest for life is something that uh uh to which we should all aspire I don't know a time where he didn't have a smile no uh or or a kind word for someone or a laugh or a joke and so that that uh but that sort of embodies doesn't it Bob the the I get 13 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 22:37 22:42 22:49 22:55 23:02 23:10 23:16 23:24 23:31 23:37 23:44 23:49 23:54 24:00 24:07 24:14 emotional when I tell this story I just told this to the newcomers club last week and it was that you know it it's kind of people's eyes get big and their jaws drop buried in his uniform Darin Erstad sent in a sign back from the LA World Series champions he was an amazing individual that clearly left an indelible image in a lot of people's minds but yeah matter of fact Peter Gammons uh at the World Series the year he died um Erstad came out to him I think that was what 204 I think yeah came out to Peter and said please tell Arnie we give him our best and um you had Tim Salmon all the former Cape Leaguers and so on and Commodores uh come out and uh Peter to this day still tells that story how during A World Series they had the right to you know remember Arnie and and that and that's the impact that uh the the Commodores and the team and the community can can have on people's lives when they come here so how do the players get here how do you recruit ball players to come play in Falmouth well we have the coaching staff that have good connections with college coaches um and you'll notice a lot of the teams have probably better relationships with one college versus another U but we have like for Oregon State we have Oklahoma State and so on and so we tend to get their better ball players and um the coaches sign them we sign to a contract and uh get them going and matter of fact 14 #darinerstad #petergammons #timsalmon �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 24:20 24:27 24:33 24:41 24:47 24:52 24:59 25:05 25:12 25:19 25:26 25:33 25:40 25:47 25:52 25:58 I think hopefully next week we'll be sending out the handbook and instructions for when to come and so on and let's stop playing baseball you've been able to uh so the the games transitioned from the Heights field to where you play now yeah sometime in the 50s or 60s I think early 60s was when there was prevalent that they played in Guv Fuller and for a long time the #falmouthhighschool Commodores shared the field with the Falmouth High football team team uh and but in the recent past since the the town built the football stadium up at the high school you've really been able to plant some roots there and and make some real improvements to the field right I think roots is the right word because every year after the football season the grass would be all torn up we we used to spend every year about $13,000 just to finish the out fix the outfield so it could be played on and no one would get hurt yeah but the town's been very supportive uh in terms of renovations over the last few years and we're still doing more and uh um I think we have one of the best fields now in the in the league and um and it's a pleasure to play there really really is it's good shape that's great uh so I'm looking at the notes here and I this is something I didn't know uh the Commodores won the championship four years in a row between 1968 and 1971 uh the the quality of the competition is really amazing I mean if you if you go see a game and uh it really at every year I think any team can really compete with any other any other team in the league and Falmouth puts 15 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 26:04 26:10 26:16 26:22 26:28 26:35 26:42 26:48 26:56 27:01 27:07 27:14 27:21 27:26 27:33 27:39 27:46 out a competitive team every year the big thing is near the end because of their long college season and the playoffs and so on there's injuries and so the pitchers now are getting shut down earlier and so on and that's why when I first started we only had an 18man roster and we played a 44 game schedule today we have a 30-man roster and play a 40 game schedule and it's all because of the pitching because we need more pitching uh to be able to fill in the slots that that that's not necessarily a Commodores question but since we're talking baseball and as a baseball fan I I uh so I remember as a kid pitchers would often pitch seven eight nine innings these days you see pitchers pitch starting pitchers will go four or five innings is there a reason for that uh uh it's to save their arm okay it's to save their arm uh one of the big problems over the years they've discovered that the young baseball players they’re tending to throw curve balls and so on and they don't realize they're doing damage to their round their development has not happened yet fully so that when they start throwing all those and a lot of Little Leagues now don't allow it they only say the fast ball and a curveball that's it and the reason for it is they need to let their arms develop and that's why you've probably heard of more high school kids having to have Tommy John surgery and so on and that's because of it isn't that interesting I didn't know that so is it possible that my arms are still developing that's why I don't have biceps very well could be well this is a a great visit let me give the both of you a chance to really talk about topics that we haven't covered in our discussion but with your 16 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 27:53 27:59 28:05 28:12 28:19 28:25 28:31 28:36 28:44 28:50 28:57 29:03 29:09 29:16 29:22 wealth of experience with the Commodores there might be other things you want to make sure that we share with the viewers about the team about that image of baseball on the Heights field or really about anything related to the Commodores yeah I'd just like to uh invite and welcome everybody to come to our games um it's old school baseball we a lot of us we have bleachers but a lot of us sit on a blanket or in a folding chair on a hill overlooking the first or third base side and um it's just a you meet a lot of people it's very friendly and it's great family family entertainment family sports and we love to have everybody come on out and visit us and we have a big one on July 27th um we're hosting the All-Star game the Cape Cod #capecodbaseballleagueall-stars Baseball League All-Star game the first time we've done it since 2001 I believe um we're expecting 5 to 6,000 uh patrons and uh and and and visitors and we'll have the best of the best best of the eastern league versus the western part of the Cape and every scout every general manager from Major League Baseball will be there and uh it should be a lot of fun should be a lot of fun so before we get to you Chuck Bob let's talk a little bit more about that because that's quite an honor and quite an event to have that hosted here in Falmouth so the the first time in in 20 years that's a big event not just for the Commodores but for the whole community oh for the whole community and you'll be seeing uh pennants uh being hung on downtown Falmouth um you know with our logo in All-Star announcing the All-Star game uh we'll 17 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 29:29 29:36 29:42 29:48 29:55 30:01 30:07 30:16 30:22 30:28 30:35 30:41 30:47 30:56 31:02 be putting out a we have a very aggressive communications plan uh to get that information out about the All-Star game and um it would be a lot of fun and it's to recognize Falmouth and partly we we've doing this because of the recent field improvements that we've been able to accomplish and and can accommodate these types we're actually renting bleachers that we will use for the day so seat an extra 1500 uh people so it's a so there'll be a lot of people in town um it should be fun it's going to be great for downtown people walk down and grab a sandwich or go at a bookstore or something and uh but that will highlight Falmouth which hasn't done it in a long time that that's just wonderful so Chuck as a 40-year volunteer a Hall of Famer someone who is synonymous with the Commodores what has this experience meant to you in your life it's the camaraderie of the people that I work with over the years all the volunteers and not just in Falmouth but all throughout the league um and it really it's a great community event I've always said that if you want to go see what I've always envisioned true baseball being go to a Falmouth Commodores game because it really is it's what it really is all about it's before all the big bucks hit it and uh if the kids start realizing you know this is an opportunity for them and come watch us play take the clinics learn develop properly you have nothing you 18 �Falmouth Public Library – Postcards from Falmouth 31:08 31:16 31:22 31:28 31:35 31:41 31:46 31:54 32:01 32:07 have nothing to lose well thank you both for uh sharing with us an opportunity to look back uh at the team where the stars of tomorrow shine today it's uh wonderful to invoke all of those images not just the Heights ball field but I love the image Bob of people in lawn chairs sitting on the hill having a hot dog I mean that's that's what baseball is all about and you get to get it here in Falmouth uh for a very reasonable price and see some of the best baseball players in the world playing right here in downtown Falmouth and we start June 15th June 15th the season starts and the All-Star game is July 27th July 27th and in between those dates uh and after it there's 20 home games that you can enjoy uh right here in downtown Falmouth so thank you for joining us uh this is Chuck Sturtevant this is Bob Curtis I'm Troy Clarkson with this look at postcards from Falmouth thank you thank you you 19 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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