Falmouth Commodores
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League Cape Cod Baseball League (Western Division)
Location Falmouth, MA
Ballpark Arnie Allen Diamond at Guv Fuller Field
League championships 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1980
Post-Season Division championships 1996, 2004, 2007, 2011
Regular Season Division championships 1994, 2004
2011 season 19-25-0, 37 points
4th place, Western Division
Management Christine Clark (President)
Bob Clark (General Manager)
Manager Jeff Trundy (Field Manager)

The Falmouth Commodores are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The team is a member of the Cape Cod Baseball League and plays in the league's Western Division. Falmouth currently plays its home games at Arnie Allen Diamond at Guv Fuller Field, one of 6 ballparks in the Cape League with the luxury of lights. Like other Cape League teams, the Commodores are funded through merchandise sales, donations, and other fundraising efforts at games such as fifty-fifty raffles.

In 2007, the Commodores finished the season with 44 points, placing them in second place in the Western Division and in the playoffs for the first time in three seasons. Falmouth has not won the league championship since 1980, despite reaching the championship series three times since then.

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History [link]

Pre-modern era [link]

Falmouth has been a member of the Cape League since its inception in the early 1900s. Pie Traynor, a former Commodors shortstop in 1919, was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1948, becoming the first former Falmouth player to earn that honor.[1]

Modern era [link]

Falmouth was the dominant team in the Cape League from the mid-1960s through the early 1970s. Falmouth reached the championship series six consecutive times beginning in 1966, when they defeated the Chatham Athletics three games to one to win the crown. The Commodores went on the win the Cape League championship four consecutive years between 1968 and 1971, culminating a span of six years in which they won the league title five times.

The only other championship for Falmouth came in 1980 when they again defeated the Chatham Athletics three games to two. The Commodores have lost in the finals four times since that year, most recently in the 2011 season, when they fell to the Harwich Mariners two games to none.[2]

Famous alumni [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ 2001 Cape Cod Baseball League Official Yearbook, p. 19
  2. ^ [1]. Retrieved 2011-08-17.

External links [link]


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Commodores

The Commodores are an American funk/soul band, which was at its peak in the late 1970s through the mid 1980s. The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour.

The group's most successful period was in the late 1970s and early 1980s when Lionel Richie was co-lead singer. The band's biggest hit singles are ballads such as "Easy", "Three Times a Lady", and "Nightshift"; and funky dance hits which include "Brick House", "Fancy Dancer", "Lady (You Bring Me Up)", and "Too Hot ta Trot". However it was in 1986 that the Commodores won their first Grammy for the song "Nightshift".

Band history

The Commodores originally came together from two former groups, the Mystics and the Jays. There was even a Jazz aspect to one of the groups. They wanted to change the name. Together, a six-man band was created from which the notable individuals were Lionel Richie, Thomas McClary, and William King from the Mystics; Andre Callahan, Michael Gilbert, and Milan Williams were from the Jays. To choose a new name, William "WAK" King opened a dictionary and randomly picked a word. "We lucked out", he remarked with a laugh when telling this story to People magazine. "We almost became 'The Commodes!

Commodores (album)

Commodores is the self-titled fifth studio album by the Commodores, released in 1977. The album spent eight weeks at the top of the R&B/soul albums chart, the second of their albums to do so, and was their first Top 5 pop album.

There is also a previously released extended version.

Reception

The band employed a variety of musical styles for the album, highlighted by the popular anthem "Brick House". With Walter Orange's squeaking/growling voice on the lead, and Ronald LaPread's roundtone bassline, this track peaked on the U.S. Hot 100 at #5, and the U.S. R&B Chart at #4. As their second single, "Brick House" helped to propel the Commodores into the spotlight as a leading R&B act.

In contrast to "Brick House", "Easy" is a pop-soul ballad with mellow vocals by Lionel Richie with a Southern country twist.

"Zoom" is one of the Commodores' best known tunes, despite not being released as a single in the US. It reached #38 on the UK singles chart.Fergie sampled "Zoom" in her song "All That I Got (The Make-Up Song)" on the album The Dutchess.

Commodores 13

Commodores 13 is the tenth studio album by the Commodores, released in 1983. It is their first album after Lionel Richie left the group, and their last album with guitarist Thomas McClary before his departure from the band (McClary recorded a solo album for Motown Records in 1984, and then retired from the music industry). The song "Turn Off the Lights" was written as a sequel to 1981's "Lady (You Bring Me Up)".

Track listing

  • I'm In Love - 4:05
  • Turn Off the Lights - 4:20
  • Nothing Like a Woman - 4:56
  • Captured - 4:37
  • Touchdown - 4:30
  • Welcome Home - 4:20
  • Ooo, Woman You - 4:22
  • Only You - 4:10
  • Chart positions

    Personnel

  • Main performer: Commodores
  • Backing vocals: Bill Champlin, David Cochrane, Harold Hudson, Melissa Manchester, Thomas McClary, Walter Orange, Phyllis St. James, Deborah Thomas, Tandia White, Vesta Williams
  • Electric guitar: Michael Dunlap, Thomas McClary, Milan Williams
  • Electric bass guitar: David Cochrane, Ronald LaPread
  • Keyboards: Bill Champlin, Harold Hudson, Milan Williams
  • Piano: Bill Champlin, Eric Daniels, Harold Hudson
  • Podcasts:

    Commodores

    Commodores

    ALBUMS

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