In Chatham, Anglers' manager Dennis Cook searches for stability

by Mauricio Palmar
Monday, July 14, 2025

CHATHAM, Mass. — The cellphone has existed for a little over half a century. Its origin can be traced back to 1973, when Motorola executive Martin Cooper made the first mobile telephone call to Bell Laboratories engineer Dr. Joel Engel to gloat about his accomplishment. However, the prototype Cooper used to make that call — the DynaTAC 8000X — wasn’t commercially available until March 6, 1983.

At the time of its release, the DynaTAC cost an inflation-adjusted $13,000, weighed a kilogram and had a talk time of 30 minutes. Few people could reasonably afford to own one, and as a college student at the University of Texas at Austin, Tammy Cook was not among...

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Game 25 Preview: Chatham vs. Cotuit

by Cooper Andrews
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

 CHATHAM, Mass. — The Anglers may be last in the East Division, but their run production says the best is yet to come for first-year manager Dennis Cook’s squad.

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Duke Stone dominates in Chatham’s 7-2 road win over Yarmouth-Dennis

by Mauricio Palmar
Sunday, July 13, 2025

SOUTH YARMOUTH, Mass. — For all intents and purposes, Duke Stone (Mississippi State) has been nothing but a reliever for a while.

As a junior at Jeff Davis High School (Georgia),...

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Chatham allows early flurry to Orleans, loses 5-2 in fog-shortened game

by Cooper Andrews
Saturday, July 12, 2025

CHATHAM, Mass. — Inexperience floods the Anglers’ roster. It’s by design. First-year manager Dennis Cook wanted to construct a team filled with guys who have something to prove and...

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Chatham’s Freeman, Larson, Jackson, Swink named 2025 CCBL All-Stars

by Cooper Andrews
Saturday, July 12, 2025

CHATHAM, Mass. — Four Chatham players have been selected to the 2025 Cape Cod Baseball League All-Star Game roster, the league announced Saturday. Jackson Freeman (Northwestern) and Ashton...

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Anglers unload season-best 12 runs to defeat Mariners, snap 2-game skid

by Mauricio Palmar
Friday, July 11, 2025

HARWICH, Mass. — For the A’s, the first inning of their contest against Harwich Friday went just like their previous 19 innings: they were blanked.

Minutes before first...

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Nate Taylor’s ceiling is sky-high. He simply wants a chance to prove it.

by Cooper Andrews
Friday, July 11, 2025

CHATHAM, Mass. — Nate Taylor doesn’t flinch. It’s a quality he developed naturally. He recovered from a traumatic leg fracture suffered in his childhood. His family moved from...

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Chatham begin 2nd half of summer with 2-0 loss to Brewster in defensive battle

by Cooper Andrews
Wednesday, July 09, 2025

BREWSTER, Mass. — As high as Roman Martin (UCLA) jumped, it wasn’t far enough to scrape a reality where Chatham’s offense was playing to its potential.

Amid a...

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Chatham can’t rally after 80-minute lightning delay, falls to Y-D 3-0

by Mauricio Palmar
Tuesday, July 08, 2025

CHATHAM, Mass. — Luke Jackson just can’t catch a break.

On the Fourth of July, the Anglers’ righty was set to pick up his third start of the season, hoping to secure a...

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Ashton Larson’s grand slam defines wild affair as Chatham beats Falmouth 11-8

by Cooper Andrews
Sunday, July 06, 2025

CHATHAM, Mass. — Ashton Larson clutched his all-black wooden bat with both hands below his waist as he slowly inched forward along the first-base line, admiring the hellacious seed he’d...

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Pitching inconsistencies cause Chatham to fall on road against Harwich

by Mauricio Palmar
Saturday, July 05, 2025

CHATHAM, Mass. — Harvey Dent, better known as Two-Face, is a supervillain in the DC Comics Universe, existing purely to antagonize Batman.

Canonically, Dent was formerly a...

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For a 2nd time, Henry Ford is leaving Charlottesville to blossom in Tennessee

by Mauricio Palmar
Saturday, July 05, 2025

CHATHAM, Mass. — They must’ve forgotten something. Mike Kinney — then a co-head coach at the Baylor School (Tennessee) — was done with his recruiting pitch. The Fords had just...

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Chatham controls final 2 innings in 7-5 win over Orleans on 4th of July

by Cooper Andrews
Friday, July 04, 2025

ORLEANS, Mass. — Dennis Cook got much more than he bargained for.

With Chatham’s lead dwindling against Orleans Friday night, Cook put Isaiah Lane (San Diego) in at...

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Anglers fall 4-0 in lightning-shortened loss to Firebirds

by Mauricio Palmar
Thursday, July 03, 2025

CHATHAM, Mass. — In the Disney XD show, “Zeke and Luther,” there is an episode aptly named, “Ice Heist, Baby,” in which the protagonists combat a heat wave that has...

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Chatham beats Brewster 10-6, now ranks as CCBL's highest-scoring offense

by Cooper Andrews
Wednesday, July 02, 2025

BREWSTER, Mass. — Isaiah Lane is the best defensive shortstop Dennis Cook has coached across his five seasons in Chatham. He made the bold proclamation Wednesday amid his first year as the...

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Situational hitting sparks Chatham’s season-high 11 runs in win over Wareham

by Mauricio Palmar
Tuesday, July 01, 2025

CHATHAM, Mass. — On Sunday, Ashton Larson (LSU/transfer) could’ve been the hero. The Anglers were down 9-7 to Falmouth in the top of the ninth, with two runners on and one out on the...

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Chatham continues hot offensive stretch, still falls to Falmouth 9-7

by Cooper Andrews
Sunday, June 29, 2025

FALMOUTH, Mass. — The fifth-inning fog at Veterans Field works in mysterious ways. So much so that it directly altered Chatham’s pitching plans against Falmouth a day later.

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