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George Gaspa honored as longest active member

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The Cape Cod Baseball Umpires Association honored George Gaspa with the Association’s Longevity Award at Sunday’s annual banquet of 2015. Gaspa is a founding member of the CCBUA since prior to splitting off from the southeastern association 1958. He is … Continue reading

One On One: Six Decades and Counting, the Ageless Umpire George Gaspa

George Gaspa, 82, umpiring on Cape Cod since 1953. Sean Walsh/Capecod.com Sports It seems like centuries ago just after World War II when he was 12 years old and pulling in a quarter share of the day’s catch working the dragging nets with his father John “Gouzie” Gaspa and his uncle Joe Captiva for whiting and scallops and haddock and cod aboard the Polaska and the Cormorant.

That world in his hometown Provincetown seems like lifetimes ago and for all… [MORE]

NEBUC training sessions on Cape

CCBUA members are invited to attend Bill McCallum’s New England Baseball Club training sessions being held Wednesday May 27th (Balls and Stikes) and Wednesday June 3rd (Maintaining Order). Sessions are free to CCBUA members. Both sessions beging at 6:30pm at the Barnstable Police department community room

New Rule Books Distributed

MLB Rule Book 2015We are please to announce that the 2015 Official Rules of Baseball rule books were distributed to members at the May 11th meeting. Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the new layout. The entire book has been reorganized and re-codified with the new rule number followed by the 2014 rule number in parenthesis.

If you were unable to attend Monday’s meeting, rulebooks will be available at the banquet May 31st.

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