Summer Collegiate Baseball
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Summer Collegiate Baseball is a form of amateur baseball designed to allow the best players in collegiate baseball to further develop their skills and competition. There are several leagues and teams which operate throughout the country to prepare players who wish to move into professional baseball the opportunity to develop the playing stamina needed for professional baseball, as well as giving them hands-on experience playing competitively with wood bats, as opposed to the aluminum bats used by the NCAA.
In the early 1990s, Major League Baseball created sanctioning bodies and several new leagues so that levels of play and player development in Summer Collegiate Baseball could be regulated. At the creation of these regulatory bodies, Major League Baseball began subsidizing the development of Summer Collegiate Baseball with the intention that athletes who choose to attend college would not fall behind athletes who instead choose to enter rookie leagues right out of high school, or players coming up through the MLB subsidized Central American development leagues.
Many major league players have come through the Summer Collegiate system, and many more are sure to come.
Summer Collegiate Leagues[edit]
- Alaska Baseball League
- Appalachian League
- Atlantic Baseball Confederation
- Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League
- Beach Collegiate Baseball League
- Cal Ripken Sr. Collegiate Baseball League
- California Collegiate League
- Cape Cod Baseball League
- Clark Griffith Collegiate Baseball League
- Coastal Plain League
- Collegiate Baseball League Europe
- Collegiate Baseball League of New York
- Erie Shores Collegiate League
- Florida Collegiate Summer League
- Golden State Collegiate Baseball League
- Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League
- Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League
- Hawaii Collegiate Baseball League
- Jayhawk League
- Kansas Collegiate League Baseball
- MidWest Prospect Baseball League
- M.I.N.K. Baseball League
- MLB Draft League
- Mountain Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League
- Mountain Collegiate Baseball League
- New England Collegiate Baseball League
- New York Collegiate Baseball League
- Northwoods League
- Pacific International League
- Pacific Southwest Baseball League
- Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League
- Prospect League
- St. Louis Metro Collegiate Baseball League
- Southern California Collegiate Baseball Association
- Southern Collegiate Baseball League
- Sunflower Collegiate League
- Texas Collegiate League
- Tri-State Collegiate League
- Valley Baseball League
- West Coast League
- Western Major Baseball League
Collegiate Baseball Associations[edit]
- National Alliance of College Summer Baseball
- Summer Collegiate Baseball Association
- National Baseball Congress
- NCAA
Further Reading[edit]
- Will Geoghegan: Summer Baseball Nation: Nine Days in the Wood Bat Leagues, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 2020. ISBN 978-1-4962-1399-0
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