Ten Baseball Fields that Dot the Cape Cod League Landscape

Dating back to the years when games were played in overgrown pastures and dusty sandlots to nicely landscaped ballparks at the Barnstable Fairgrounds or near the ocean at Falmouth Heights, Cape Cod baseball has seen many changes over the years.

In more recent times, the games have been played at fields that are used by high-school teams during the baseball season before they give way to the Cape Cod Baseball League in early June.

From “the other side of the bridge” at Spillane Field in Wareham to the easternmost point of Eldredge Park in Orleans, the distance is 45.9 miles. Within that expanse, 10 ballfields can be accessed, although not along a direct route.

While Route 6 is the main thoroughfare from one side of the Cape to the other, ballparks in Falmouth and Chatham may be off the beaten trail but still easily accessible on a summer evening for a ballgame.

Although ballpark capacities vary by franchises, there is one thing all teams share: Admission is free to all of the fields, as is parking.

Here is a travelogue of baseball fields currently being used by the Cape Cod Baseball League, as of 2026:

Doran Park – home of the Bourne Braves

• Address: located at the Barry J. Motta Athletic Complex at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School, 220 Sandwich Road, Bourne 02532.
• Namesake: The field was named for George Doran Sr., a longtime baseball fan and resident of the Bourne village of Sagamore, who died in 1994.1 In 2008 a lighting system was gifted to the ballpark by the Doran family.
• Established: 2007.
• Fun fact: After joining the league in 1988, the Bourne team bounced around for a few years, playing games at Hendy Field at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, as well as at Coady Field in Bourne. Coady Field would occasionally have “sun delays” as the sun would set in the right-field section, often blinding the batter.
• Major leaguers who played there: Pete Alonso, Harrison Bader, Travis Jankowski, Mitch Moreland, Connor Wong.

Stony Brook Field – home of the Brewster Whitecaps

• Address: 384 Underpass Road, Brewster 02631.
• Namesake: The field is located on the grounds of Stony Brook Elementary School.
• Established: 2006.
• Fun Fact: After Brewster joined the league in 1988, games were played on the baseball field at Cape Cod Regional Technical School in Harwich through 2005. The field resembled a bowl with a large sloping hill on the first-base side. Wanting to move out of Harwich and play their games in Brewster, the club owners had the field at Stony Brook constructed with the aid of a generous donation from the Yawkey Foundation. Many local donations also helped support the field’s completion.
• Major leaguers who played there: Aaron Judge, Tommy Kahnle, Nick Senzel, Will Smith, Spencer Torkelson.

Veterans Field – home of the Chatham Anglers

• Address: 702 Main Street, Chatham 02633.
• Namesake: Land for Veterans Field was acquired and the name established “as a memorial to those from Chatham who served in the [First] World War and all other wars.”2
• Established: 1925.
• Fun Fact: There is a marker on the press box in honor of Thurman Munson, who played there in 1967 and led the league with a .420 batting average. The league batting champion trophy is named in honor of Munson. In 1984 Veterans Field hosted a game between the Cape League All-Stars and the US national baseball team, which was preparing for the 1984 Summer Olympics. In that game, Oddibe McDowell of Team USA hit a home run that traveled an estimated 502 feet to a fire station beyond the center-field fence.3
• Major leaguers who played there: Jeff Bagwell, Dave Bergman, Kris Bryant, Glenn Davis, Evan Longoria, Thurman Munson, Mike Pagliarulo, Jeremy Pena, Bobby Witt.

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Lowell Park – home of the Cotuit Kettleers

• Address: 10 Lowell Avenue, Cotuit 02635.
• Namesake: Elizabeth Lowell, whose family donated the land in the town of Barnstable village where the field was built. She was the daughter of George Jones, a co-founder of the New York Times. The former Elizabeth Lowell School was once located west of the field.
• Established: 1947.
• Fun Fact: The field has been described as a scene out of a Norman Rockwell painting.4 Lowell Park is one of three fields that do not have lights – the others are in Brewster and Yarmouth-Dennis. The Kettleers have captured a league-record 17 Cape League championships. The press box is named for the legendary Arnold Mycock, the team’s general manager from 1949 through 1995, who was one of prime movers of the modern Cape Cod Baseball League.
• Major leaguers who played there: Will Clark, Ron Darling, Joe Girardi, Lou Merloni, Jeff Reardon, Terry Steinbach, Chase Utley, Mike Yastrzemski.

Guv Fuller Field – home of the Falmouth Commodores

• Address: 790 Main Street, Falmouth 02540.
• Namesake: Elmer E. “Guv” Fuller, the longtime coach and athletic director at Falmouth’s Lawrence High School. He quarterbacked Falmouth’s high-school football team in 1905 and 1906, then returned to his alma mater in 1926 and figured prominently in the town’s athletic programs until his retirement in 1952.
• Established: 1952; the Commodores began playing there in 1964.
• Fun Fact: The baseball diamond was named in honor of Arnie Allen, who began as a 7-year-old batboy with the team and remained with the club as the team’s equipment manager for 46 years. The diamond was dedicated in his memory in 2004, after he died the previous year following a brave battle with esophageal cancer.
• Major leaguers who played there: Steve Balboni, Jacoby Ellsbury, Darin Erstad, Mike Flanagan, Tino Martinez, Adley Rutschman, Spencer Strider.

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Whitehouse Field – home of the Harwich Mariners

• Address: 75 Oak Street, Harwich 02645.
• Namesake: Benjamin F.C. Whitehouse, a Harwich benefactor who provided $10,000 to complete the construction of the field on the property of the former Harwich High School. Not only is the field named in his honor, but so is the B.F.C. Whitehouse Outstanding Pitcher Award, given annually to the top hurler in the league.
• Established: July 1969 as part of Harwich’s 275th anniversary celebration.
• Fun Fact: The new scoreboard was donated in 1998 by former Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent in memory of his father, Fay Sr. The commissioner was a longtime summer resident of Harwich. The scoreboard has been described as “the largest scoreboard in New England south of Fenway Park.”5
• Major leaguers who played there: Cavan Biggio, Josh Donaldson, D.J. LeMahieu, Ian Happ, Tim Lincecum, Trey Mancini, Kevin Millar, Cal Raleigh, Cory Snyder.

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McKeon Park – home of the Hyannis Harbor Hawks

• Address: 120 High School Road, Hyannis 02601.
• Namesake: John McKeon, the first secretary-treasurer of the originally named Barnstable Townies Baseball Club and a longtime Barnstable school committee member and athletic booster.
• Established: 1979.
• Fun Fact: Ospreys have been known to nest atop the light stanchions since the early 1990s, and appropriately the team mascot is Ozzie the Osprey. The fieldhouse is named for Jack Alymer, a key figure in founding the franchise in 1976, when they were known as the Hyannis Mets. In 2016 the diamond was dedicated as the Judy Walden Scarafile Field, in honor of the longtime president of the Cape Cod Baseball League.
• Major leaguers who played there: Albert Belle, Jackie Bradley Jr., Eric Byrnes, Charlie Furbush, Sean Manaea, Kevin Plawecki, Jason Varitek, Robin Ventura.

Eldredge Park – home of the Orleans Firebirds

• Address: Eldredge Park Way, Orleans 02653.
• Namesake: Louis Winslow “Win” Eldredge, a baseball enthusiast who donated the land for the ballpark to the town of Orleans.
• Established: 1913.
• Fun Fact: The oldest ballpark in the Cape League, it is well known for the terraced right-field line where fans assemble early in the morning with lawn chairs to stake their seats for the night. The park also features the deepest center field on the Cape at 434 feet. On the hill behind home plate is the sculpture “The Catch,” created in 2019 by artist Gwen Marcus of a young ballplayer reaching to catch a ball.
• Major leaguers who played there: Carlton Fisk, Nomar Garciaparra, Todd Helton, Frank Thomas, Mark Teixeira, Marcus Stroman, Matt Wieters.

Clem Spillane Field – home of the Wareham Gatemen

• Address: 54 Marion Road, Wareham 02571.
• Namesake: Clement S. Spillane, who came to Wareham in 1947 and coached football, basketball, and baseball. In 13 years at Wareham, Spillane’s teams never posted a losing record, claiming numerous league and regional titles.
• Established: 1964.
• Fun Fact: Even though Wareham is technically not on Cape Cod (it is on the other side of the Bourne Bridge), Spillane Field played host for several years in the early 2000s to the annual Cape Cod High School Baseball Classic, an all-star baseball game for high-school upperclassmen.
• Major leaguers who played there: Lance Berkman, Chuck Knoblauch, Kyle Schwarber, Paul Skenes, Nick Swisher, George Springer, Mo Vaughn, Barry Zito.

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Merrill “Red” Wilson Field – home of the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox

• Address: 210 Station Avenue, South Yarmouth 02664.
• Namesake: Merrill “Red” Wilson, a teacher, administrator, coach, and athletic director at Dennis-Yarmouth High School. Wilson was a seven-time Cape Cod League all-star catcher for Yarmouth in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He went on to manage the team for 16 seasons and was inducted into the Cape Cod Baseball League Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class in 2000.
• Established: 1953, but became the regular field of the Yarmouth Red Sox in 1973.
• Fun Fact: The concession stand at Yarmouth-Dennis features a ballpark delicacy called Donut Burger, which is a specialty burger made with doughnuts instead of hamburger buns. There are three combinations: The Hurler, a beef patty topped with Cheez Wiz and wrapped inside a jelly doughnut; The Screamer, a Boston Cream doughnut with a plain burger; and the Triple Play, a toasted glazed doughnut with a burger, cheese, and bacon.
• Major leaguers who played there: Steve Balboni, Craig Biggio, Walker Buehler, Mickey Morandini, Buster Posey, Chris Sale, Justin Turner.

NOTES

1 Paul Gately, “Bourne’s New Gem of a Diamond: Doran Park Is Dedicated,” Bourne Courier, July 10, 2007.

2 “Chatham – Special Town Meeting,” Chatham Monitor. April 16, 1925: 3.

3 Steve Buckley, “Chasing Down Legendary Homer Spots Like Fenway’s Red Seat in Ballparks Across America,” The National, May 20, 2024.

4 David Albright, “Cape Cod League Attracts Premier Players, Fans,” ESPN.com, July 21, 2006. Retrieved September 25, 2019.

5 “Cape Cod to Host Division III Baseball Regional,” capecodbaseball.org. Retrieved July 9, 2025.