Two former members of the Bourne Braves are part of the Cape Cod Baseball League's Hall of Fame Class of 2025. Outfielder Travis Jankowski and former field manager Bob Stead joined four others the league will enshrine in November.
Jankowski, the talented outfielder from Stony Brook, had two productive seasons for the Bourne Braves in 2010 and 2011, winning the 2011 Pat Sorenti League MVP Award. That year he batted .329 BA (57-173) and led the league with 57 hits, 31 runs, seven triples, and 77 total bases. He added six doubles, 22 RBI, 15 stolen bases, and a .445 slugging percentage. His seven triples in 2011 tied for second all-time in the league, the year he was named an All-League outfielder.
The San Diego Padres selected him in the first round of the 2012 MLB draft. His Major League career has included seasons with the San Diego Padres, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets, Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers (where in 2023 he led the team in stolen bases en route to their first-ever World Series championship), and the Chicago White Sox. He is currently an outfielder with the Tampa Bay Rays.
Stead, a Doane (Neb) U. product, known as “Coach” around Cape Cod, ran the gamut in the Cape League, serving as a coach, manager, scout, and league commissioner. The personable Stead managed Yarmouth-Dennis from 1975-78 and the Bourne Braves in 1995 and 1996, served as Cape League commissioner from 1999-2003, and was a founder and a former chair of the Cape League Hall of Fame committee in 2000. He was an amateur scout for the New York Yankees and Mets, attended UMass-Amherst, and graduated from Doane University.
Having moved to Dennis Port at the age of 13, he joined the staff at Dennis-Yarmouth High School in 1973 2013 and served as assistant football, JV boys’ basketball, and assistant and head baseball coach under inaugural Cape League Hall of Famer Red Wilson. In the 1980s and 1990s, he led the Dolphins girls’ hoopsters to great success and is the all-time winningest basketball coach in D-Y history. Sadly, Bob passed away in 2019. He is survived by his wife Connie, sons Doug and Kyle, daughter Amy, and several grandchildren.
During his two seasons as manager of the Braves, Stead went 36-48-4.
The Cape Cod Baseball League Hall of Fame was established in 2000 to honor those who, through their exceptional achievement or volunteerism, have made lasting contributions to the game of baseball on Cape Cod and the Cape Cod Baseball League. Prominent members include former CCBL alumni Frank Thomas, Lance Berkman, Nomar Garciaparra, and Thurman Munson, as well as past League President Judy Scarafile Walden and longtime League volunteer Jim Higgins. The Hall of Fame serves to collect and preserve the history of baseball on Cape Cod and the Cape Cod Baseball League. The Hall of Fame collection serves as an archive of artifacts from the Cape Cod Baseball League, including photographs, uniforms, baseballs, bats, and trophies that signify crowning achievements in the Cape Cod Baseball League.
