Pacific International League

Founded in 1992, the Pacific International League was considered by many to be the premier Summer Collegiate Baseball league in the Northwest before the founding and success of the West Coast League. Sanctioned by Major League Baseball and the National Baseball Congress, most PIL players are NCAA eligible and are unpaid in order to maintain their eligibility. The PIL is distinct from many other Summer Collegiate Baseball leagues in that the league also allows former professionals to rehabilitate in the league as long as they have not exceeded they are currently NCAA eligibile.

Each team is operated in a similar manner to a professional minor league team, providing players an opportunity to play under the same conditions using wooden bats, minor league specification baseballs, experiencing overnight road trips and playing nightly before fans in a stadium. Many of the Pacific International League Teams share the field at some of the most elite collegiate and minor league stadiums in Washington and British Columbia. Though in recent years the PIL has had teams only around the Seattle Washington area.

PIL teams who have won the National Baseball Congress World Series are the Everett Merchants, Aloha Knights and Seattle Studs. In recent years, the number of teams playing in the PIL has dropped coinciding with the success of their rival WCL.

2023 PIL Teams
Team	Location
Everett Merchants	Everett, WA
Highline Bears	Seattle, WA
Northwest Honkers	Seattle, WA
Seattle Studs	Seattle, WA
Redmond Dudes	Redmond, WA
DubSea Fish Sticks	Seattle, WA
Seattle Blackfins	Shoreline, WA
The Gumberoos

Former PIL Teams
Team	Years
Aloha Knights	1999-2004
Bellingham Bells	1999-2004
Bend Elks	2000-2004
Kelowna Falcons	1993-2004
Kitsap BlueJackets	2017
Spokane RiverHawks	2003-2004
Wenatchee AppleSox	2000-2004