Southern Collegiate Baseball League

Founded in 1999, the Southern Collegiate Baseball League is a Summer Collegiate Baseball league operating teams in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Eastern Tennessee. Sanctioned and partially funded by Major League Baseball and the National Alliance of College Summer Baseball, all players are NCAA eligible and are unpaid in order to maintain their eligibility.

Each team is operated in a similar style 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. SCBL teams play in both current and former minor league stadiums, municipal stadiums, and college fields. Despite being founded in 1999, many of the SCBL teams have storied histories throughout their regions, having long established themselves as serious competitors in semi-professional and company leagues.

The Southern Collegiate Baseball League takes their role as a player development league very seriously. The SCBL employs training and development standards above and beyond that of many of their fellow Summer Collegiate Leagues. Among these regulations and standards is a strict 85 pitch count limit per pitcher. The Southern Collegiate Baseball League has hosted collegiate athletes from the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and the Caribbean.