The Blog
Right Field Fog was born in the summer of 2007, the days when Gordon Beckham and Buster Posey were roaming Cape League fields. It was a heck of a time to start. As one of two Cape League blogs that popped up around the same time, Right Field Fog aims to provide context for Cape League summers, with an emphasis on in-season daily coverage. And the name? It was sparked by memories of long summer nights on the Cape, when the fog could make a baseball game feel like magic.
The Author
Will Geoghegan is a sportswriter from Louisville, Kentucky who now lives in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. From the time he was six months old, he has spent all-too-brief parts of every summer on the Cape. In addition to his work at Right Field Fog, he is the author of the book Summer Baseball Nation: Nine Days in the Wood Bat Leagues, published in 2020 by the University of Nebraska Press. For more, visit willgeoghegan.com.
The Cape Cod Baseball League
The Cape Cod Baseball League is the most prestigious summer collegiate league in the nation. Find a list of the country’s best college players, make your way over the bridges, stop at a Cape League ballpark and you’ll see those players in one of baseball’s most unique environments. Future superstars, playing every day for the first time in their lives, swinging wooden bats in front of dozens of scouts, living with Cape Cod families and enjoying a summer in which baseball is still a game, not a job. It’s special.
Photography by Joseph Cavanaugh