Judy Walden Scarafile: A Transformative Leader in the Cape Cod League
This article was written by Cecilia Tan
This article was published in Cape Cod Baseball League: From College Stars to Big League Futures (2026)
Judy Walden Scarafile, pictured with Cotuit Kettleers alum Joe Girardi, in 2015 at Yankee Stadium. Upon hearing of Judy’s retirement announcement, the Yankees invited her to visit the Stadium, including the press box.
Judy Walden Scarafile was born on January 1, 1949, in Englewood, New Jersey, to Charles Carroll Walden III and Barbara (Capron) Walden. The Walden family business dated back several generations, to her great-great-grandfather and his son Charles Carroll Walden Sr., who founded a company in 1884 to publish periodicals for the paper and printing trades such as Walden’s ABC Guide for the Paper Industry and New England Stationer. After a 1919 merger, the company was known as Walden, Sons & Mott, Inc. Her grandfather, Charles Carroll Walden Jr., served as company president (as well as mayor of Tenafly, New Jersey1 ), as did her father, Charles III. Her mother, Barbara, was not content to just be a socialite wife, working as a legal secretary and medical transcriptionist, but her life’s passion was supporting Native American causes, which eventually led her, in her 70s, to working on a reservation in New Mexico. That independence and passion for causes was passed down to her daughter, who not only served as a transformative leader for the Cape Cod Baseball League, but also numerous other charitable organizations, including the Yawkey Foundation and the Major Crisis Relief Fund – all while working as a pharmacist.
Young Judy grew up in a house divided: She and her father were Dodgers fans, while her mother and brother Charles (“Chip” while growing up) rooted for the Yankees. The baseball bug bit hard, though, while she was in high school. She had attended Northern Valley Regional High School in Demarest, New Jersey, but relocated to Connecticut partway through. As she described it, “I moved in April of my junior year to the baseball hotbed of Connecticut: Housatonic Valley Regional High School, home of Steve Blass.” Baseball season was just starting, and the aspiring sportswriter learned to score the games and offered her services to a local newspaper. “I had hooked on with the Lakeville Journal, which was a weekly newspaper in the northwest corner. And the first story I wrote, I wanted to keep the reader interested. So I gave the score on the last line!”2
Not only was the high-school team very good, but so was the local amateur summer league team, the Lakeville Firemen. “This would have been 1966,” Judy explained. “I lived right in Lakeville, which was truly a baseball hotbed. The Lakeville Firemen were in what may be the Hartford Twilight League now, I’m not exactly sure what the league was called back then. I became the scorekeeper for the Lakeville Firemen. So I really learned to score.”3
During her senior year, she wrote a column for the Lakeville Journal called “Housatonic Headlines.” After graduation, she attended the University of Connecticut (UConn) and, armed with clippings, marched into the offices of the school newspaper. “UConn had a daily paper, which in 1967 was pretty unique in the country. I walked into the office with what I would call my ‘scrapbook’ under my arm, which had all these articles pasted in with Elmer’s glue. And I said, ‘I’d like to cover the baseball team.’ And the editor said to me, we already have someone doing the baseball team. Would you like – whatever it was, I don’t know – women’s track? Whatever it was, it wasn’t baseball. And I said, ‘No thanks. I’m really not interested in any other sport except baseball.’”
“I folded up my scrapbook and walked out. And I was on my way down the hall when he came running after me, and he said, ‘No, no, no, come back. We’ll work something out.’ So I wound up getting very involved as a writer and although I was not the official scorer at any game, I kept score, because that was how we wrote our stories then.”
She was the only woman sportswriter on a baseball beat that she knew of, but she wasn’t focused on the uniqueness of her position, only on doing her job well. “A reporter from the Hartford Courant wanted to do an article on me. And I said, ‘Why?’ And he said, ‘Well, do you understand that this has never been done? That you’re really breaking the ceiling?’ I said, ‘No. I don’t even think about those things.’ All I wanted to do was to be evaluated and judged on the job I did. Did I write well? Was my scoring accurate? Did I do a good job? I don’t care whether I’m a woman or a dinosaur.”
That Courant feature, by award-winning sportswriter Bill Winters, ran nearly a full page in the paper. The story detailed how, in order to accompany the team on their spring trip to Florida, the young “hazel-eyed blonde” had “pulled off a coup by obtaining financial backing” from a Reader’s Digest journalism fund at the university, plus a bit of budgetary help from the campus newspaper.4 Indeed, her adeptness at obtaining financial backing would later become a hallmark of Scarafile’s career(s), but at the time it was just part of the adventure.
“For whatever reason, Larry Panciera, who was the baseball coach – and who was extremely strict and conservative – allowed me to travel with the team for four years,” she said. “Both Larry and assistant coach Andy Baylock were very supportive and instrumental.” (Scarafile and Baylock have remained good friends.) She was also the first female student to ever take Coach Panciera’s UConn course, “Coaching of Baseball.” “I was on the bus, whether we went to Maine for the weekend, whether we went to Florida for 10 days, I traveled with the team.” The college season typically ran around 30 games at that time. “I am so grateful to the people along the way like Larry and Andy who opened the door for me, a door that could have been closed and that could have been the end of it.”
Through her work with the UConn team, Walden got to know her scorekeeping counterpart for the UMass baseball team, Dick Bresciani. “UMass and UConn were big rivals, so he and I became good friends over the years. But still rivals.” “Bresh,” as he was familiarly known, would later helm media relations for the Boston Red Sox and then become the team’s official historian and archivist. Bresciani had gotten his degree in journalism at the University of Massachusetts in 1960, then stayed on as assistant director of sports information for 11 years, compiling stats for the baseball, football, and basketball teams.
But Bresh had a summer gig, as well. He had started scorekeeping for the Cape Cod Baseball League in 1965, and in 1968 had been named PR director.5 Founded in 1885 as a local baseball league in which teams from towns on Cape Cod competed with one another, the Cape League was then on its way to becoming the premier collegiate summer baseball league, accredited by the NCAA and eventually subsidized by Major League Baseball. Over 1,600 CCBL alumni have made it to the big leagues, with over 400 active in 2025, meaning close to one in every five active major leaguers played on the Cape.6 The league is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, run by volunteers from the local community, making it the baseball equivalent of summer stock theater. “Around April or May of my junior year, Bresh called me and he said, ‘Would you like to come to the Cape League and be an official scorer?’ I immediately said yes. I had no car, no place to live, and I had not asked my mother. My mother said no. And I said, ‘I’m going anyway.’”
Ever resourceful, Judy borrowed a car from her economics professor, but the car had no reverse gear. “I just had to be very careful the way I parked that I could always move forward. And my promise to [the professor] was that I would have seat belts put in the car. And I did – the day before I returned to UConn.”
Just like players in the lowest levels of the minors, Walden had to work to make ends meet. “So I drove this old blue bomber, and I found a place to live in Sandwich with some other UConn women. We got $15 a game to score and write for the Cape Cod Times, and $5 to call in the scores to three Boston newspapers and some local radio stations. So it was a package. If you were the official scorer, you wrote the story.” That wasn’t all. “I had a part-time job as a waitress directly across the street [from where I lived]. It was a restaurant called the Yankee Clipper. And I worked there for lunch, and then I’d go off and do my games at night. So it was perfect, perfect.”
Although she lived in Sandwich, she often covered the games in Wareham, on the other side of the Cape Cod Canal, “because no one else wanted to drive over the bridge. I was low person on the totem pole.” And the only woman scorer.
After that first summer, Walden always found a way to get back to the Cape for the season. “Every summer, I just would come down to the Cape. Whatever job I had, I made sure that I could leave the job for the summer and come to the Cape.”
Her position led to a now infamous incident at Yankee Stadium, where she was thrown out of the press box. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Cape League all-stars would face the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League all-stars annually in a game held in a major-league park: Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium, or Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. In 1970, the first of these matchups, Walden traveled along with Bresh and the players and took her place in the press box a few hours before game time. The Yankees were out of town, so the press box, which normally seated 40 to 50 writers, was occupied by only a handful of people.
“So, Bresh calls from the dugout to the press box and says, ‘We have a problem. You can’t be in the press box.’ And I’m looking around and there are like 45 empty seats. ‘Why? I’m not taking anyone’s seat.’ And he tells me there’s an issue with a woman being in the press box. The announcer tells me there’s never been a woman in the press box before, and this is causing a problem. And I said, ‘Well, this is ridiculous. I’m here to do a job.’”
She refused to leave. Eventually stadium security came to physically remove her. “This man grabs me by the arm and ‘escorts’ me out of the press box. And I sat in the upper level looking out over all the empty seats. So apparently I was the first woman in the Yankee Stadium press box and the first woman thrown out.”7 She considered making a stink about it in the press. “When I came home to the Cape that night, I had a story to tell. And I had to make a decision. At that time, Betty Friedan and NOW (National Organization for Women) and the women’s rights movement were really starting. I thought, okay, I can go big with this and let people know what happened to me so it doesn’t happen to someone else. Or I could just sit on it.” Walden decided to play by the rules rather than “get labeled as a troublemaker.” Staying involved with the Cape League was too important to risk over a momentary political statement.
College graduation came in 1971, with Walden attaining a split degree in biology and chemistry, “But every elective I took was a pharmacy course.” An academic adviser told her that if she stayed for one more year, she could walk out with both a bachelor’s degree and a pharmacy degree. “But I said, ‘Nope nope nope, I’m done. I have to get out in the world and work.’” In fact, she was eager to work in baseball. A few months before graduation, she had sent letters to all the major-league teams, but only one, the Phillies, replied. “They could use someone to be in charge of ‘women’s programs’ at their ballpark, but she had to start right away,” reported the Boston Globe.8 Walden opted to stick it out through graduation and then set her sights on other baseball opportunities.
She tried a familiar milieu: “I lived two blocks from Boston College. I decided I wanted to connect with the BC team and be their scorekeeper or whatever – same kind of thing – because I couldn’t let go of baseball. And I wasn’t down on the Cape yet. It was springtime.”
At that time, a former major leaguer was the head coach of the Boston College baseball team. “So I got to know Eddie Pellagrini. And he said, ‘Sure, come on board.’” She was writing for the Boston College Sports Review, and offered to keep score for the team as well. “So I covered a few games at home. And then we were going to take a bus to [Amherst]. And Pelly calls me the day before. And he says, ‘You can’t go on the bus.’” Bill Flynn, the athletic director, had said she could not go.
This time, Judy decided to go to the Boston Globe about it. An article ran in the Globe on April 15, 1972, with the patronizing headline, “She’s Cute, She’s Blonde … And Out of a Job.” In the article, BC claimed she couldn’t ride the bus for insurance reasons, but if the sexism evident in the article is even a fraction of what she faced on the job, can there be any doubt that a male sportswriter would not have met the same opposition? That was the end of her involvement with BC baseball.
Meanwhile, Bresh had started working for the Red Sox, and she bucked for a job there, “but it didn’t materialize,” she told the Globe. For this article, she provided more detail: “So I wanted to work for the Red Sox. I had three people in the organization that really wanted to bring me on board, [GM] Haywood Sullivan, Neil Mahoney, and Bresh were all pulling for me. And then [John] “Al” Alevizos [head of the administrative staff]9 became the fourth person. During the interview process, I’m okay in the interview, but then [Alevizos] says, ‘I want you to take a typing test.’ And I’m like ‘Oh boy, I’m not going to do well on this.’ And I didn’t. And that was the end of that.”
She found work as a pharmacy technician at the Karas Pharmacy by St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (the hospital made famous by the television series St. Elsewhere), where she was “robbed twice at gunpoint.” Many Karas employees were Northeastern University co-op students. “I’m thinking I’m better [than them] because I’ve already got a degree, but they would say, ‘What’s your degree getting you? You’re doing the same work we’re doing.’ And it was then that I realized, you know, I should just go get the degree.”
She met with Dr. Karl Nieforth, dean of the UConn school of pharmacy.10 “I sat down with Dr. Nieforth and said, ‘Okay, I’m ready to do one more year here.’ And he said, ‘Not now, now it’d be three more years. But you could go to the Mass[achusetts] College of Pharmacy and do it in one.’ And I did. It’s not because I was a genius; it’s just the way the courses and requirements worked. I just took advantage of it.”
Meanwhile the Karas Pharmacy was ideal for spending summers at the Cape. Because so many employees were co-op students, they hired based on the academic schedule. “So I would say to Marty Karas, goodbye for the summer. They could just bring in the summer students, and I would be out until, you know, September or end of August. It was perfect. Absolutely ideal.”
Karas Pharmacy was also where she met her soon-to-be husband, Peter Scarafile. “He was one of the Northeastern pharmacy students and he was instrumental in convincing me to go get my degree. We were married in June of ’74, and then Peter finished Northeastern and took his boards, and I got my degree [at the end of the year]. As the kids say today, all the ‘adulting’ happened in 1974.” She then continued to work for Karas, but only for “a short amount of time. [By then] my husband was Marty’s number-one person. And when Marty was out, Peter would be in charge, and I’m like, ‘No, this isn’t going to work anymore.’ So I went to work for Osco.11 I think my rate of pay was like $6.60 an hour. Pharmacists did not make a lot of money back then.”
Judy Walden Scarafile, with husband Peter, accepting the National High School Baseball Coaches Association Woman of the Year award, December 5, 2024, in Fort Myers, Florida.
The couple had vague designs on moving back to Connecticut, but the Cape was calling. “Peter [started] working at Centerville Pharmacy, and I was working at a small, independent pharmacy in East Dennis.” At the time the couple thought, “Well, we’re just going to try for another year, but we’re not going to stay here that long. We’re probably going to move to Connecticut. …”
That move never happened. “We never left!” The Cape League, of course, was a draw. “Baseball definitely played a role. By then, Bresh had moved to the Red Sox. I became the PR director of the Cape League early on, so I was busy year-round. And Peter got a wonderful job at Cape Cod Hospital in the pharmacy and stayed there for 42 years. And I enjoyed my part-time work in East Dennis as a pharmacist, and my volunteer work in the Cape League, and then some other volunteering. It was a good fit.” (We’ll return to the subject of the “other volunteering” later.)
“I wasn’t in corporate America, I was at a pharmacy named Players – I used to say ‘as in baseball players’ – but it was named for the Dennis Playhouse. My boss loved the fact that I was in the Cape League. He got a charge out of it and he was very flexible with the schedule, so it all worked out. Again, I’m very grateful for all the opportunities I had, because the path along the way was paved with people who helped me.” The enthusiasm of her husband, Peter, was also key to her contributions to the league. “I have been blessed to have the love, support, and encouragement from my mom and Peter. My ‘journey’ in baseball never would have been possible without Peter at my side every step of the way.”
Scarafile wore many hats with the league, serving not only as PR director but also as deputy commissioner and vice president. Chatham resident Dick Sullivan, a longtime Cape League officer and dean of Cape Cod Community College, had tried to retire from the league, but when he was asked to take the role of president in the early 1980s, he agreed, but only if Scarafile would be his vice president. “It was a men’s organization, so I had to do a little convincing, but I made clear it was a package deal,” Sullivan told the Boston Globe. “I’m no fool. I knew how great she was.”12
When Sullivan stepped down in 1991, Scarafile became the first (and so far only) female president in the league’s history. Just a few years later, she had to guide the league over one of its biggest hurdles: a major budget shortfall caused by the major-league player strike of 1994-95.
Cape League games are free to attend. Families bring camp chairs and picnic blankets and enjoy twilight baseball. The players stay with host families. But field maintenance, uniforms, umpires, and equipment all cost the league money. In particular, the wooden bats that are the hallmark of collegiate summer leagues make up a significant part of the budget. At one point in the late 1970s, the league had switched to aluminum bats to save money – the same reason all of college baseball did. But in 1985 the Cape League was the first of the NCAA-sanctioned leagues to switch back to wood, a significant reason why the CCBL became the premier collegiate league for scouts.13 Talent evaluators who wanted to be able to better predict how the young players might do in professional baseball had urged the change.14 Plus, “We all wanted to get back to true baseball,” Scarafile told the press.15 The office of the commissioner of baseball began to provide a subsidy to the Cape League, partly to cover the cost of the bats.
In 1995 the entire budget of the league was $125,000, of which the major leagues had been set to provide $85,000. Because of the strike, the commissioner announced that if the major-league season was canceled, the Cape League would receive no money. If the major-league teams played a partial season – which is what happened – they would get $45,000.
“We will play,” Scarafile vowed.16 Sponsors were quickly arranged. Ocean Spray, a major company on the Cape, where many cranberry bogs are located, jumped on the chance to become the league’s “principal sponsor,” placing a patch on player uniforms and securing naming rights to the Cape All-Star Game. “The next day [after the news broke], we were on the phone with Judy and set the wheels in motion for our participation. Things moved very quickly,” an Ocean Spray representative said.17
And although Ocean Spray had pledged to make up the full $40,000 shortfall, Scarafile also reached out to the Yawkey Foundation and Bank of Boston. The same resourcefulness that had once obtained a journalism grant to follow the UConn team was now aimed at not just saving the Cape League, but growing it. “If there’s one thing I got started, I was probably the front-runner on this: It was in sponsorship and bringing in league-wide sponsors,” the ever-humble Scarafile admitted. “We had the grant from Major League Baseball, but as our expenses grew, that was not going to cover it. And we would sit there in meetings and I’d say, the bottom line is we need more money in order to make this happen. Money isn’t going to come from the sky.”
At the time she took over as president, each team arranged its own program books. “The early books of the league and the teams had no advertising until we caught on that this was a way to bring in money. I started it on the league level, and then the teams started in their own books.”Scarafile wouldn’t simply sell an ad in the program, either. “Maybe your advertising package includes having a table at a game, a banner on the fence, a PSA. I put that kind of stuff together.”
From 1991 to 2000, Scarafile worked as a pharmacist and put in 30 to 40 volunteer hours a week as president of the league. But Players Pharmacy closed in 2000. As Scarafile told John Koch of the Boston Globe, “The job of president, over the years, was to make the budget balance and make sure the money was there. But it became such a huge fundraising endeavor that the league recently created a paid part-time job, director of corporate development, and I got it. So, basically now, all day long, almost every day, I am doing baseball.”18 The Yawkey Foundation quickly took advantage of Scarafile’s newfound “free time” to add her as a trustee in 2002.19
Also in 2002, Scarafile helped establish a televised Cape League game of the week on College Sport Television (now CBS College Sports). Many other expansions of the league’s media footprint followed during her tenure. In her first 10 years as president, she grew the league’s budget from $125,000 to $320,000, with the teams responsible for raising another $880,000.20 Baseballs alone could run $15,000 to $20,000 a season, as the league would run through “five hundred dozen” (6,000) balls a year. Scarafile insisted on improvements – such as no longer carpooling players to games and renting a fleet of buses instead – and then made sure the money was there to make it happen. Sponsorship expanded well beyond Ocean Spray. For the 2025 season, the league’s website listed nearly 40 sponsors ranging from T-Mobile and the sandwich chain Jersey Mike’s to the Massachusetts-based steakhouse chain 99 Restaurants and local colleges.
There are over 30 collegiate leagues now, all using wooden bats, but despite the proliferation of competition for talent, the Cape League’s cachet – and success rate – has steadily risen. According to stats kept by the Cape Cod Baseball League, the average game in 2024 drew over 1,500 spectators, with total attendance – including the all-star game and postseason – nearing 350,000 that season.21 The growth of the league has not only served the local communities of the Cape by maintaining a beloved and vibrant cultural institution, but has resulted in even more Cape League players making the majors. In 2014 Scarafile told the Globe, “Players have the best opportunity to be seen here. A wonderful circle has been formed. The more players come and succeed, the more scouts want to be here, and the more we attract top players. One feeds off the other.”22 Alumni numbers compiled by Sue Horton for CapeCodBaseball.org show the steady rise in Cape League alums making the big leagues from 2002 through 2019, as shown in figure 1. Nearly one in four of the picks (23 percent, 140) taken in the 2021 draft were Cape alumni.23 In 2024 the rate was up to one in three (32 percent, 197).24
“Judy defined excellence of the Cape League and was a driving force making it the nation’s premier collegiate baseball league,” said Matt Pitta, former news anchor for WXTK Radio in West Yarmouth. “Judy worked seamlessly and cooperatively with local, regional and national media in conveying the message of the Cape League and its importance to not only the game of baseball, but to Cape Cod community.”25 Scarafile remained director of corporate development until 2014, growing the annual league budget to $550,000.26 She procured more than $7 million from over 50 corporate sponsors. She was the key to the league obtaining $1.5 million in matching grants from the Yawkey Foundation for field improvements.
Scarafile announced in August 2015 that she would step down after the October CCBL board meeting. Shortly after, the Hyannis Harbor Hawks named their newly renovated field in her honor.27
The press release announcing her retirement also mentioned many other changes and improvements that took place on her watch, but believe it or not, her contributions to the Cape Cod Baseball League may not be the most significant work that Judy Walden Scarafile has done. She and her husband are disaster relief volunteers, and they have been deployed in the wake of natural disasters to places such as Haiti and New Orleans by the American Red Cross, Medical Reserve Corps, and other organizations. Her volunteer efforts have included Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief, Habitat for Humanity (Cape Cod and New Orleans), two rotations with Project Medishare in Haiti, and the Salvation Army Hurricane Sandy Relief Effort in New Jersey. She has also served on the board of numerous other nonprofits including the Cape Cod Times Neighbors Fund, the Major Crisis Relief Fund, and the Barnstable County Regional Substance Abuse Council.
This is far from an exhaustive list of Scarafile’s philanthropic and community service efforts, which also include volunteering through her church and helping teach English to a group of Haitians. “The thing is, it’s such a blessing to be able to help, to be in a position to help,” she said. “I’m grateful for every opportunity.”
When the COVID-19 lockdowns hit, Scarafile again served her local community. “The thing that Peter and I really got involved with during COVID was we were running a testing clinic for the only independent pharmacy on Cape Cod, Whole Health Pharmacy, owned by Karryn Lewis. So we were doing a testing clinic two days a week and seeing 100 people drive through it.” When vaccines first became available to the elderly and vulnerable in January 2021, they shifted their focus from testing to vaccination. “We approached the owner of the pharmacy and said, ‘Why don’t we take this out on the road and do some clinics out in the community?’” They began to bring the vaccines to group homes and settings such as the Latham School, for youth with developmental delays.
“Peter and I organized 30 volunteers of retired doctors and nurses, auxiliary people, neighborhood friends who wanted something to do during COVID. They were so happy to have not just something to do during COVID, but to have something in medicine, something worthwhile, something helping people,” she explains. “We loved it. And the doctors and the nurses who we pulled into this group, we couldn’t come up with a name for ourselves. So finally, we just said, we’re ‘The Team.’” The Team did 190 remote clinics, totaling over 9,500 vaccinations. “Again, opportunities. I’m grateful. To have an opportunity to volunteer in your own profession is really unique.”
As for women in baseball in 2025? “It has been a privilege to see so many women, interns, and scouting liaisons pass through the Cape League” and go on to jobs within professional baseball and sports media. “So many more doors are open now, and it’s been great to see.” But baseball is still a male-dominated space where sexism can rear its head. Scarafile’s advice to women navigating those waters is to hang in there, but “pick your battles. I learned from the BC thing that it might have been better to be patient. There are times when working from the inside pays off.” There were no guarantees of vindication of course, but when word of her retirement from the CCBL reached the New York Yankees, the team reached out to Scarafile and invited her and Peter to the Stadium. “They invited me to come back, come to batting practice, come down to the field, hang out with the players,” Scarafile told the Cape Cod Times. “Peter and I had a ball down there, and then I was invited up to the press box. After 45 years, I’m going back to the press box, and no problem this time.”28
CECILIA M. TAN has been writing about baseball ever since her fifth-grade book report on The Reggie Jackson Story. She has written for Yankees Magazine, Gotham Baseball, Baseball Prospectus, and The National Pastime. She became publications director for SABR in 2011 and edited the Baseball Research Journal 2011-2025. She also played women’s baseball from 2000 to 2007, mostly with the Pawtucket Slaterettes.
Judy Walden Scarafile Field scoreboard at McKeon Park, Hyannis, 2024.
SOURCES
All unattributed quotations from Judy Walden Scarafile are from a personal interview on June 27, 2024, or follow-up email.
NOTES
1 “Susan Walden Wed to Bradford Divine,” New York Times, June 25, 1960: 19. https://www.nytimes.com/1960/06/25/archives/susan-walden-wed-to-bradford-divine.html .
2 Personal interview.
3 It was the Pomperaug Valley Baseball League, also known as the Pomperaug League. See “League Awards to German, Greenberg, and Lakeville Team,” Lakeville Journal, May 4, 1967: 12. The Scoville Memorial Library has the complete archives of the Lakeville Journal online at https://scoville.advantage-preservation.com/ .
4 Bill Winters, “University of Connecticut Woman Sportswriter Set to Make Baseball Scene in Sunny Florida,” Hartford Courant, March 15, 1970: 15.
5 “Cape Baseball League Names P-R Director,” Chatham News, May 22, 1968: 19.
7 The Yankees would also be involved in the landmark case of sportswriter Melissa Ludtke, whom they allowed into the Yankees clubhouse in 1977, but commissioner of baseball Bowie Kuhn blocked her from access during the 1977 World Series. Ludtke sued in court and won in 1978. Melissa Ludtke, Locker Room Talk: A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2024).
8 Susan Bickelhaupt, “Cape Crusader: After Working Her Way In, Scarafile Has Helped Build Up a League of Her Own,” Boston Globe, June 18, 2004: E.11.
9 SABR Front Office Employee Database, 1972 Red Sox, https://frontoffice.sabr.org/.
10 Karin Whiting Burgess, “In Memoriam Dr. Karl A Nieforth,” UCONN Today, June 21, 2022, https://today.uconn.edu/2022/06/in-memoriam-karl-a-nieforth/ .
11 Osco Drug was a retail pharmacy chain acquired by CVS in 2006. All freestanding Osco locations were rebranded as CVS in 2007, but certain pharmacy counters inside grocery stores such as Star Market and Jewel have retained the Osco branding. “Our History,” CVS website, https://www.cvshealth.com/about/our-strategy/company-history.html .
12 Bickelhaupt, “Cape Crusader.”
13 Brendan McCarthy, “Fred Ebbett, 70; Led Switch to Wood Bats for Cape League,” Boston Globe, May 16, 2003: E.12.
14 Sam Carchidi, “Those Metal Bats are Lacking Luster,” Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 1998: 76.
15 Carchidi.
16 Rod Beaton, “Baseball: Cape Cod Squeeze,” USA Today, February 9, 1995: 25.
17 John Vellante, “Ocean Spray Juices Up Cape League Coffers,” Boston Globe, April 12, 1995: 43.
18 John Koch, “Judy Walden Scarafile: The Interview,” Boston Globe, June 24, 2001: BGM 12.
19 Chris Reidy, “Yawkey Foundation Expands Board: Selection of 6 Trustees Follows Pact Between Harrington, Reilly,” Boston Globe, May 31, 2002: C1.
20 Koch, “Judy Walden Scarafile: The Interview.”
21 Cape Cod League 2024, Baseball Reference, https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/league.cgi?id=524fd4b7 .
22 Rob Duca, “See Baseball’s Future Stars under the Stars: The Cape League Offers a Stepping Stone for players, a Step Back in Time for Fans,” Boston Globe, June 29, 2014: E1.
23 Michael Clair, “Why Is the Cape Cod League So Special?” MLB.com , July 20, 2021, https://www.mlb.com/news/cape-cod-league-history-and-importance .
24 CCBL Public Relations Staff, “197 Cape League Alumni Selected in 2024 Draft,” Cape League website, https://www.capecodleague.com/news/197-cape-league-alumni-selected-in-2024-mlb-draft .
25 Cape Cod League, https://ism3.infinityprosports.com/ismdata/2012030201/std-sitebuilder/sites/201801/www/en/news/events-and-announcements/index.html?article_id=2181 .
26 Trevor Hayes, “Judy Walden Scarafile Guided Cape League to New Heights,” National Baseball Hall of Fame website feature #Shortstops, undated, BaseballHall.org , https://baseballhall.org/discover/short-stops/judy-scarafile .
27 Rohma Abbas, “Honoring a Home Run Career,” Barnstable (Massachusetts) Patriot, December 17, 2015, https://www.barnstablepatriot.com/story/sports/college/baseball/2015/12/17/honoring-home-run-career/32861408007/ .
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