Approximately 20 percent of all current Major Leaguers once performed in the Cape League. These players include Mo Vaughn, Jeff Bagwell, Will Clark, Chuck Knoblanch, Frank Thomas, Albert Bell, Charles Nagy, Nomar Garciaparra, John Valentin, Tim Naering, Gary DeSarcina, Tim Salmon, and over 100 others. Recent former Commodors currently in the Majors are listed on our Alumni Page . The NCAA prohibits payments to amateurs. In order to sustain themselves, each Commodore is offered 20-25 hours a week of employment through the efforts of the franchise's Job Committee.
Players reside with host families and remit a fee.
The Commodores have been active in the Cape Cod Baseball League practically since its inception. In those early days, the Cape teams hosted teams from as far away as Boston, but soon made it a Cape-only league. In 1921, Falmouth took the first Cape Championship. The records are sketchy after that, but since 1963 Falmouth has won the championship six times and has been first in the Western Division eleven times.