New England Collegiate Baseball League

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The New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) is a 12-team amateur summer baseball league founded in 1993 and sanctioned by the NCAA and Major League Baseball. Each NECBL team plays an eight-week, 42-game schedule during June and July, with a playoff in early August. Like the Cape Cod Baseball League and other amateur leagues, the NECBL is a showcase for top college-level players, giving professional baseball scouts a chance to see prospective pros playing against each other.

Founded in 1993, the NECBL began its direction under George Foster, former Cincinnati Reds and New York Mets All-Star and Major League Baseball home run leader, and Emmy Award-winning television producer/director Joseph Consentino. Play started in 1994 and today the NECBL has become a strong twelve-team league that plays in all six New England states. It recruits players attending U.S. colleges from New England, the other 44 states, and foreign countries, provided that they come from NCAA-sanctioned colleges or universities, are in good academic standing, have completed at least one year of athletic eligibility, and have at least one year of eligibility remaining.[1]

Contents 1 Teams 1.1 Northern Division 1.2 Southern Division 2 External links 2.1 Team Websites

[edit] Teams

(see individual team websites below)

[edit] Northern Division

• Concord Quarry Dogs (Concord, New Hampshire)
• Holyoke Giants (Holyoke, Massachusetts)
• Keene Swamp Bats (Keene, New Hampshire)
• Lowell All-Americans (Lowell, Massachusetts)
• Sanford Mainers (Sanford, Maine)
• Vermont Mountaineers (Montpelier, Vermont)

[edit] Southern Division

• Danbury Westerners (Danbury, Connecticut)
• Manchester Silkworms (Manchester, Connecticut)
• Newport Gulls (Newport, Rhode Island)
• North Adams SteepleCats (North Adams, Massachusetts)
• Pittsfield Dukes (Pittsfield, Massachusetts)
• Torrington Twisters (Torrington, Connecticut)

[edit] External links

• New England Collegiate Baseball League
• Eye on the Dream Documentary Series

[edit] Team Websites

• Concord Quarry Dogs
• Danbury Westerners
• Holyoke Giants
• Keene Swampbats
• Manchester Silkworms
• Lowell All-Americans
• Newport Gulls
• North Adams SteepleCats
• Pittsfield Dukes
• Sanford Mainers
• Torrington Twisters
• Vermont Mountaineers