The Denton Outlaws were a collegiate summer baseball team based in

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, from 2005 to 2007. They played their home games at Falcon Field in

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. The team was quite competitive during their short time in the

Texas Collegiate League The Texas Collegiate League (TCL) is a collegiate summer baseball league made up of teams from the states of Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. The league's headquarters are in Coppell, Texas. Uri Geva, owner of the Brazos Valley Bombers, is the lea ...

. In 2005, they were the TCL Champions. In 2006, they won the

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Division.

Disbandment

The Denton Outlaws were one of seven teams that were disbanded after the league filed a lawsuit because the teams tried to form a new league that were going to copycat that the TCL used. The Outlaws played their last season in 2007.

External links

TCL Fan Forum

References

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