Even though the game was canceled because of the rain, the 1995 Kettleers team did not let the weather get in the way of its plans. Eleven members and head coach Mike Coutts visited Lowell Park for the first time in 30 years.

“Lowell Park looked exactly the same as I remember it 30 years ago,” said pitcher Mike Skeeles, who traveled from North Carolina to attend the reunion. “Still the same smells, the wind hitting your face, blowing through your hair. It was just as beautiful as I remembered.”

Many players said that the field had not changed too much and that it felt as if they had just left. They said that being there was emotional and incredible.

“When I came back to Lowell Park, it felt like I was thrown in to play a game,” said first baseman Glenn Davis, who came from Philadelphia. “The place looked amazing and that old-time feel came back. It was such a wonderful feeling.”

“Going back to Lowell Park today, it meant a lot,” said pitcher Josh Gandy, who now lives in Tennessee. “I love all the work they’ve done with it and how they kept it rustic. Hanging out with these guys was awesome, just being there with them and reliving a lot of our memories that we had during games and not during games there. It meant a lot to me.”

“It was awesome. There’s so many memories from '95 and to listen to the guys rehash a lot of the stuff that happened,” Coutts said. “Being in amazement of the changes they’ve made to the field and how some the field is now. And the guys talking about how much they love the field and how awesome it was to play there.”

While there, the team remembered times at Lowell Park together and met with current Kettleers players. They also were able to grab some Kettleers merchandise to bring back to their homes all over the country.

After visiting a soggy Lowell Park, the 1995 players and their families headed over to Cotuit Federated Church for a ceremony. Current Kettleer players, interns and members of the board were there to celebrate with them. Intern Chris Jones gathered photos that were added to a slideshow played for everyone.

After that, board member and public address announcer Roy Reiss introduced the coach and players from the team, with Coutts helping Reiss write personal introductions for every player on the team. They included statistics about the players, how they were as a person during that time and the impact they made to win the championship.

Current head coach Mike Roberts gave each of the players and Coutts a goodie bag from the Kettleers. The canvas bag with the Cotuit "C" in red included a practice shirt with their name and the number "95," a 2024 Kettleers yearbook, a bag of Cape Cod potato chips, jam from Cape Cod Cranberry Harvest, Cape Cod salt water taffy and a Kettleers license plate cover.

When asked about their favorite part of the 1995 season, the players all agreed that winning the championship was great. A couple of them talked about the picture on the front of the 2024 yearbook, with the dogpile after their victory over Chatham.

“It was the first championship I ever won, and I never won one again as a player. It was special,” said Josh Paul, who was the player jumping on top of the dogpile. “It was the dogpile all players everywhere want to be a part of. I just happened to be the last guy there, so I jumped on the top.”

“I’ve never been more excited to not be able to breathe and have cleats and bodies on top of me as I was that day,” said pitcher Kevin Sheredy, who recorded the last out of the deciding Game 3. “That day when we all dogpiled just off the mound was incredible. It was an accomplishment. The picture of Josh Paul jumping on top of the pile, that is what baseball is all about. That is exactly it in a nutshell.”

“Obviously winning the championship was huge. We won 11 games in a row at one point. We never lost two games in a row,” Coutts said. “For me, I think it was being around the team every single day, how hard they worked, how positive they were, and how much fun they had. It was a fun summer.”

Other players added that connecting with their teammates was also a favorite memory from that season, adding Coutts helped facilitate that.

“The thing to me that I cherish the most out of the times besides a championship is we were there to play baseball and meet other people,” said third baseman Brian Bernard, who came from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. “Individually, we cared about each other and what we did as a team. There’s a genuine friendship. Coach Coutts set the tone for this.”

“I played on a lot of teams before '95 and after '95 and this group was special, and coach Coutts was a big part of that,” said pitcher Brendan Sullivan, who now lives in Washington, D.C. “Every single day coming to the ballpark with a group of people that enjoyed each other as much as they did and competed like we did, it was unique. I’ll never forget it.”

Pitcher Mike Ramseyer said his favorite memory was a pregame stretch that the team would do together.

“Before the games, the team would go out into left field and we would just lay down, arms spread, legs spread, for two minutes and not move, do the full body stretch. Coutts didn’t know what we were doing,” Ramseyer said. “We just had our own thing. We got our own style that we could just do what we wanted because we were good to go. We got crazy guys running in full speed from the bullpen to the mound, charging guys when they missed ground balls, and making fun of them for going up 3-0 and striking out. It built us as stronger people.”

Pitcher Ryan Lynch summed up the feelings shared by all players who came to the reunion, saying that this group was really special.

“I think most of them will say that this is the best team that they ever played on. I’ve played on a lot of different teams, a lot of different sports, bar none this is the best team I ever played on,” said Lynch, who traveled from Los Angeles. “I think we’re all very thankful for the experience we had here. The fact that we were able to win a championship was kind of secondary to that because we were going to come to the ballpark, play hard, have fun, like that was the easy part.”

The players were able to bring their families to a special place and share about a very important time in their lives, memories that will live on at Cape Cod’s Field of Dreams.