Central Illinois Collegiate League

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Central Illinois Collegiate League
Sport	Baseball
Founded	1963
Motto	Real Wood
No. of teams	5
Country(ies)	Illinois United States
Most recent champion(s)	Dubois County Bombers
Official website	CICL official site

The CICL is a collegiate wooden bat summer baseball league. It is composed of five teams from Illinois and Indiana.The CICL was founded in 1963 as a charter member of National Collegiate Athletic Association certified summer baseball. Although the NCAA dropped Summer baseball program in 2005, The CICL is one of ten summer collegiate baseball leagues affiliated with the National Association of Summer Collegiate Baseball (NASCB), which now takes over the duties of the NCAA and follows all NCAA requirements. The league is also is one of four summer college baseball leagues supported by Major League Baseball^[1].

Contents 1 CICL Teams 1.1 Current Teams 1.2 Future Teams 1.3 Defunct Teams (partial) 2 Famous Alumni 3 References 4 External links

[edit] CICL Teams

[edit] Current Teams

Central Illinois Collegiate League Teams
Team	Location	Stadium
Danville Dans	Danville, IL	Danville Stadium
Dubois Bombers	Du Bois, IL	League Stadium
Dupage Dragons	Lisle, IL	Benedictine Sports Complex
Quincy Gems	Quincy, IL	Quincy Stadium
Springfield Sliders	Springfield, IL	Lanphier Park

[edit] Future Teams

The league plans to expand back to 8 teams for the 2009 season^[2].

• Hannibal, MO will join the CICL for the 2009 season, and will play at a renovated Clemens Field^[3].

[edit] Defunct Teams (partial)

• Bluff City Bombers (Alton, Illinois) 1998-2005 moved to Dubois County, Indiana
• Champaign County Colts pre 1994-1997
• Decatur Blues pre 1994-2003
• East Peoria Scrappers 2005
• Fairview Heights Mets pre 1994-1994
• Galesburg Pioneers 2004-2006
• Springfield Rifles 1983-2006
• Twin City Stars (Normal, Illinois) 1982-2006

[edit] Famous Alumni

This is a list of some players that started their careers in the Central Illinois Collegiate League:

• Bob Brenly,
• Neal Cotts,
• Joe Girardi,
• Ryan Howard,
• Jon Papelbon,
• Jack Perconte,
• Mike Schmidt

The rest of the list of all 167 players that have made appearances on major league ballclubs can be accessed on the CICL website.

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.ciclbaseball.com/index.php?view=about
2. ^ http://www.ciclbaseball.com/index.php?view=posts&month=1&dispyear=2008
3. ^ http://www.ciclbaseball.com/index.php?view=posts&month=4&dispyear=2008

[edit] External links

• Central Illinois Collegiate League