The Orleans Firebirds, formerly the Orleans Cardinals, are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Orleans, Massachusetts. The team is a member of the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) and plays in the league's East Division. The Firebirds play their home games at Eldredge Park in Orleans, which opened in 1913 and is the CCBL's oldest ballpark. The Firebirds are owned and operated by the non-profit Orleans Athletic Association.
Orleans Firebirds
Longtime major league player and former Boston Red Sox manager Patsy Donovan skippered Orleans in 1929 and 1930.
Eldredge Park has been the home of Orleans baseball since 1913.
Boston Red Sox legend and Baseball Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk played for Orleans in 1966.
Orleans is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, situated along Cape Cod. The population was 6,307 at the 2020 census.
Orleans Town Hall
The Orleans Inn, between Town Cove and Route 28
The Jonathan Young Windmill, a restored, working eighteenth-century windmill next to Town Cove
Marcus Stroman played for the Orleans Firebirds in 2010 and 2011.