California Collegiate League

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The California Collegiate League is a semi-professional baseball league and member of the National Baseball Congress. As of 2006, The CCL has eight teams made of amateur players, mainly based in California's Central coast. The league has a wooden bat rule and follows standard rules in the NBC affiliation format. CCL Headquarters are in Carpinteria near Santa Barbara.

[edit] Teams

California Oaks
Central Valley Kings
Monterey Bay Sox
San Luis Obispo Blues
Santa Barbara Mission Reds
Salinas Packers
Santa Maria Indians
Surf City Hammerheads

[edit] History

Began in 1994 as the California Premiere League and later the California Coastal League until 2003. Two original teams, the San Luis Obispo Blues and the Santa Barbara Mission Reds still operate. After the Thousand Oaks, California team joined the CCL, but the Central Valley Kings of Merced suspended play (Merced was an original CCL site), there was a 7-team regular game schedule. CCL teams had played exhibition games with teams of the Sacramento Rural League and the Pacific Southwest Baseball League. The league had former teams in Bakersfield, Fresno, Hanford, Merced, Oakland, Palm Springs, Sacramento, San Jose, Santa Rosa, California, and Santa Clarita, California and Simi Valley, California both near Los Angeles.