Capahas Baseball

Longtime Cape Capahas player/manager and SEMO ESPN personality Jess Bolen passed away at the age of 82 on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. Sources told the Southeast Missourian confirming the initial report by Todd Richards of KFVS. Bolen's son and former Capahas manager, Tom Bolen, told Richards the senior passed away overnight in his sleep...

New Cape Central baseball coach Matt Palmer is not only a former Major League pitcher but an alum of a fraternity that has played for 130 years. Palmer was once a member of the Capahas, the oldest amateur baseball team in America that was shepherded by the Bolen Family, first by Jess (manager and general manager) and his wife Mary (fundraiser and organizer), and their son Tom, who was both a player and manager for the Capahas...

The Cape Girardeau Capahas, the nation’s oldest amateur baseball team, have shut down operations, ending a 130-year era of local baseball that began in 1894. Longtime Hall of Fame Capahas manager and current general manager Jess Bolen said the decision was made due to a lack of financial support and a lack of availability to play at Capaha Field...