Cotuit Kettleers

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• Location: Cotuit, MA
• League: Cape Cod Baseball League 1963-present
• Stadium: Lowell Park

Team Bio

The Cotuit Kettleers are a Summer Collegiate Baseball team playing in the Cape Cod Baseball League, considered by many to be the nation's premier summer collegiate baseball league. The Kettleers, who were formed in 1947, play their home games at Lowell Park in Cotuit, MA. They are by far the most successful team in the CCL, with 14 league championships. Former manager Jack McCarthy led the Kettleers to four straight titles in the seventies.

The Kettleers invest heavily in actively recruiting and training top players, and have hosted elite collegiate athletes from throughout the United States and Canada, including several Major League players. The Kettleers have won 14 CCBL championships.

The Cotuit Kettleers, like other summer college baseball teams, are dedicated and designed to provide minor league-style competition for NCAA players that wish to continue on into professional baseball and routinely send players to the MLB Drafts. The Kettleers operate in the model of an Independent Minor League team: recruiting athletes, playing nightly before fans in stadiums which seat thousands, using wood bats and minor league specification equipment, and experiencing road trips between games. Like all other summer collegiate players, the Cotuit Kettleers are unpaid in order to maintain their NCAA eligibility, and live with host families in the same manner as Single A and Independent League players.

• All Cape Cod Baseball League Games are Free to the Public. A donation can be offered at the gate.

Yearly Record

Year	Record	Manager	Playoffs
1963	28-4	Jim Hubbard	Champions
1964	31-3	Jim Hubbard	Champions
1965	15-16	Jim Hubbard
1966	14-22	Jim Hubbard
1967	22-16	Jim Hubbard
1968	16-24	Jim Hubbard
1969	21-22-2	Jim Hubbard	1st Round
1970	23-21	Jack McCarthy	1st Round
1971	20-18-4	Jack McCarthy	1st Round
1972	26-15-1	Jack McCarthy	Champions
1973	24-17	Jack McCarthy	Champions
1974	20-19-3	Jack McCarthy	Champions
1975	24-18	Jack McCarthy	Champions
1976	25-12-5	Jack McCarthy	1st Round
1977	27-13-2	Jack McCarthy	Champions
1978	19-22-1	Jack McCarthy
1979	23-17-2	George Greer	1st Round
1980	25-15-2	George Greer	1st Round
1981	19-18-5	George Greer	Champions
1982	24-16-2	George Greer	1st Round
1983	27-11-3	George Greer	Runner Up
1984	22-16-4	George Greer	Champions
1985	28-14	George Greer	Champions
1986	23-18-1	George Greer	Runner Up
1987	22-18-2	George Greer	1st Round
1988	21-18-5	Pete Varney
1989	23-20-1	Pete Varney
1990	22-19-2	Pete Varney	1st Round
1991	21-21-2	Roger Bidwell
1992	28-14-1	Roger Bidwell	Runner Up
1993	24-20	Roger Bidwell
1994	20-21-2	Roger Bidwell
1995	29-11-3	Mike Coutts	Champions
1996	23-19-2	Mike Coutts
1997	21-21-2	Tom Walter
1998	18-22-4	Tom Walter
1999	26-18	Mike Coutts	Champions
2000	17-26	Mike Coutts
2001	20-20-4	Mike Coutts
2002	23-16-5	Garrett Quinn	1st Round
2003	20-21-2	Garrett Quinn
2004	20-23-1	Mike Roberts
2005	22-19-3	Mike Roberts	1st Round
2006	27-16-1	Mike Roberts	1st Round
2007	14-27-3	Mike Roberts
2008	24-18-2	Mike Roberts	Runner Up
2009	20-18-6	Mike Roberts	Runner Up
2010	19-23-2	Mike Roberts	Champions
2011	14-30	Mike Roberts
2012	30-14	Mike Roberts	1st Round
2013	25-18-1	Mike Roberts	Champions
2014	18-25-1	Mike Roberts	Semi Final
2015	17-27	Mike Roberts	1st Round
2016	15-28-1	Mike Roberts
2017	22-21-1	Mike Roberts	1st Round
2018	22-18-4	Mike Roberts	1st Round
2019	20-20-4	Mike Roberts	Champions
2021	18-17-1	Mike Roberts	1st Round

Notable Kettleers Alumni

• Tim Teufel
• Will Clark
• Bob Butkus
• Jack McCarthy
• Jim Perkins
• Ron Darling
• George Greer
• Bernie Kilroy
• Cal Burlingame
• Terry Steinbach
• Arnold Mycock
• Jeff Reardon

Related Links

• Cotuit Kettleers Home Page
• Cape Cod Baseball League