This article contains a list of organized
baseball league
League or The League may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Leagues'' (band), an American rock band
* ''The League'', an American sitcom broadcast on FX and FXX about fantasy football
Sports
* Sports league
* Rugby league, full contact footba ...
s.
International competition
*Many international baseball events are coordinated by the
baseball division of the
World Baseball Softball Confederation, including the
World Baseball Classic.
Americas
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Latin American Series
The Latin American Series (''Spanish: Serie Latinoamericana'') was a baseball competition that annually gathers the champions of the professional winter baseball leagues (summer in the case of Curaçao) from the countries that are part of the Lat ...
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Caribbean Series
United States
Youth Leagues & Major Organizations
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American Legion Baseball, a youth program, headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Babe Ruth League
The Babe Ruth League is an international youth baseball and softball league based in Hamilton, New Jersey, US named after George Herman "Babe" Ruth.
The parent program, Babe Ruth League, Incorporated, is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization.
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, a youth program, headquartered in Hamilton, New Jersey.
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Fellowship of Christian Athletes
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Little League Baseball
Little League Baseball and Softball (officially, Little League Baseball Inc) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization[Pony Baseball
PONY Baseball and Softball is a non-profit organization with headquarters in Washington, Pennsylvania. Started in 1951, PONY organizes youth baseball and softball leagues and tournaments, as over 500,000 players annually play PONY in over 4,000 l ...]
, a youth program, headquartered in Washington, Pennsylvania.
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Roy Hobbs
''The Natural'' is a 1952 novel about baseball by Bernard Malamud, and is his debut novel. The story follows Roy Hobbs, a baseball prodigy whose career is sidetracked after being shot by a woman whose motivation remains mysterious. The story mos ...
Baseball, an over 30 amateur, adult men's baseball organization, headquartered out of Ft. Myers, FL, with national and international Leagues and Teams.
High school
* In the US, the
National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) and each state association governs the play of baseball at the high school level. The
Federated Christian Athletic Association
Federated may refer to:
* Federated state, a constituent state within a federal state
* Federated school, a model of administration in some educational institutions
* Federated congregation, a type of religious congregation
Computing
* Federat ...
(FCAA) and state Christian associations oversee the play of baseball at the private Christian School level. Note, however, that a substantial number of Christian schools choose instead to join their state's general athletic association if the organization's rules allow it.
Baseball for the Disabled
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Alternative Baseball, United States
Amateur baseball
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Abalone League, United States
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Ligue de Baseball Élite du Québec
The Catholic League of France (french: Ligue catholique), sometimes referred to by contemporary (and modern) Catholics as the Holy League (), was a major participant in the French Wars of Religion. The League, founded and led by Henry I, Duke of ...
, Canada
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New Brunswick Senior Baseball League The New Brunswick Senior Baseball League is the highest level of amateur baseball play in New Brunswick, Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ...
, Canada
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Nova Scotia Senior Baseball League
The Nova Scotia Senior Baseball League is an amateur baseball league located in Nova Scotia. The league is the highest level of amateur baseball in the province, it is for players 18 and over. The league champion traditionally represents Nov ...
, Canada
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National Adult Baseball Association
The National Adult Baseball Association (NABA) is an adult, amateur baseball organization, headquartered in Denver, Colorado. It offers competitive and recreational baseball for players in over 125 leagues in over 40 U.S. states. Over 25,000 pla ...
, United States
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Cuban National Series
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Brazilian Baseball Championship
The Brazilian Baseball Championship ( pt, Campeonato Brasileiro de Beisebol) is the highest competition of baseball in Brazil. It is organized by the Brazilian Baseball and Softball Confederation (CBBS).
The tournament consists of 16 local teams ...
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All-American Amateur Baseball Association, United States
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National Amateur Baseball Federation, United States
College baseball
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NCAA conferences:
Division I,
Division II,
Division III, and the
College World Series (
Div. I,
Div. II,
Div. III)
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NAIA conferences The following is a list of National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics conferences as of the 2022–23 school year. Unless otherwise noted, changes in conference membership occur on July 1 of the given year.
Current conferences Football
;N ...
, including the
NAIA Baseball World Series
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National Club Baseball Association (NCBA) conferences
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National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) conferences
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List of Collegiate Summer Baseball Leagues
Town Team Baseball
Town Team Baseball is a variety of amateur baseball played in the United States. In Town Team baseball, sometimes also called townball, the teams represent either a given city or town, or a commercial enterprise which sponsors the team. Usually a ...
Townball is a popular tradition in the
Upper Midwest, with grassroots support at the local level.
Professional baseball
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Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, made up of two component leagues;
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National League
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American League
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Minor League Baseball (MiLB) in the United States and Canada, comprising several levels and multiple component leagues;
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AAA''
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International League
The International League (IL) is a Minor League Baseball league that operates in the United States. Along with the Pacific Coast League, it is one of two leagues playing at the Triple-A level, which is one grade below Major League Baseball ...
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Pacific Coast League
The Pacific Coast League (PCL) is a Minor League Baseball league that operates in the Western United States. Along with the International League, it is one of two leagues playing at the Triple-A (baseball), Triple-A level, which is one grade bel ...
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Eastern League
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Southern League
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Texas League
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High-A''
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Midwest League
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Northwest League
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South Atlantic League
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Single-A''
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California League
The California League is a Minor League Baseball league that operates in California. Having been classified at various levels throughout its existence, it operated at Class A-Advanced from 1990 until its demotion to Single-A following Major Leag ...
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Carolina League
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Florida State League
The Florida State League (FSL) is a Minor League Baseball league based in the state of Florida. Having been classified at various levels throughout its existence, it operated at Class A-Advanced from 1990 until its demotion to Single-A following ...
**''Rookie''
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Arizona Complex League
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Florida Complex League
**Fall baseball
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Arizona Fall League
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Independent baseball league
An independent baseball league is a professional baseball organization in the United States or Canada that is not overseen by Major League Baseball and is outside the Minor League Baseball clubs affiliated to it.
The Northern League and Frontie ...
s in the United States and Canada
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American Association of Professional Baseball
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Atlantic League of Professional Baseball
The Atlantic League of Professional Baseball (ALPB) is a professional independent baseball league based in the United States. It is an official MLB Partner League based in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States. The Atlantic League's ...
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Empire Professional Baseball League
The Empire Professional Baseball League (EPBL) is an independent baseball league that began play in 2016. The Empire League plays a 40-game regular season followed by a five-game post season. The four-team league consists of four teams from Upst ...
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Frontier League
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Pioneer League
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Pacific Association of Professional Baseball Clubs
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Pecos League Pecos may refer to:
Places
* Pecos River, rises near Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
* Pecos, Texas, a city in Reeves County, Texas, United States
* Pecos County, Texas, named for the Pecos River
** Pecos Spring, a spring
* Pecos, New Mexico, ...
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United Shore Professional Baseball League
The United Shore Professional Baseball League (USPBL) is an independent baseball league in suburban Metro Detroit, Michigan, United States, started in May 2016. Each team in the USPBL plays a 42-game regular season schedule from May through Septem ...
Instructional Leagues
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California Winter League
California Winter League is a former baseball winter league. It was the first integrated league in the 20th century as players from Major League Baseball and Negro league baseball played each other in training games. The league was in existence f ...
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Latin America
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Colombian Professional Baseball League* (LCBP), Colombia
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Cuban National Series* (CNS), Cuba
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Dominican Professional Baseball League* (LIDOM), Dominican Republic
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Dominican Summer League (rookie), Dominican Republic
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Mexican Pacific League
The Mexican Pacific League (), known as Liga ARCO Mexicana del Pacífico for sponsorship reasons or simply LMP for its acronym in Spanish, is a professional baseball winter league based in Northern Mexico. The ten-team regular season schedule run ...
*, Mexico
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Liga Norte de México, Mexico
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Mexican League (Triple-A), Mexico
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Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League* (LNBP), Nicaragua
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Panamanian Professional Baseball League* (LPBP or Probeis), Panama
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Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente* (LBPRC), Puerto Rico
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Venezuelan Professional Baseball League* (LVBP), Venezuela
Defunct Leagues
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Federal League defunct since 1915, in the United States
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Union Association
The Union Association was a league in Major League Baseball which lasted for just the 1884 season. St. Louis won the pennant and joined the National League the following season.
Seven of the twelve teams who were in the Association at some poi ...
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Negro league baseball
The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be ...
, defunct since 1958, in the United States
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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) was a professional women's baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley which existed from 1943 to 1954. The AAGPBL is the forerunner of women's professional league sports in the Uni ...
, defunct since 1954, in the United States
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Canadian Baseball League
The Canadian Baseball League was an independent minor league that operated in 2003. The league's only Commissioner was Major League Baseball Hall of Famer and Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame member Ferguson Jenkins. The league featured former majo ...
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Cuban League*
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Venezuelan Summer League
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North Country Baseball League
The North Country Baseball League (NCBL) was an independent, professional baseball league located in the Northeastern region of the United States in 2015. Operating in cities not served by Major League Baseball or their minor-league affiliates, th ...
Asia
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Asia Series
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Asia Winter Baseball League
The Asia Winter Baseball League is a professional baseball league hosted in Taiwan with 2012 as its inaugural season. Making use of the warm and dry winter climate in West Taiwan, the short term league aims to offer young baseball players addition ...
Japan
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Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB)
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Central League (major)
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Pacific League (major)
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Eastern League (minor)
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Western League (minor)
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Japanese Baseball League (Former League of
Central League and
Pacific League)
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Shikoku Island League Plus (Independent)
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Baseball Challenge League (Independent)
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Kansai Independent Baseball League (defunct)
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Japan Women's Baseball League
The , formerly Girls Professional Baseball League until 2012, was the highest level of women's baseball
Women's baseball is played in several countries. The strongest and most organized women's baseball leagues are in the United States, Austr ...
(Women's)
South Korea
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KBO League (major)
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KBO Futures League
KBO Futures League () or Korea Baseball Futures League is South Korea's second level of baseball, below the KBO League. It serves as a farm league with the purpose to develop professional players on-demand to play in the KBO League. The league ...
(minor)
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Korea Women's Baseball League (Women's)
Taiwan
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Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL, major)
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Taiwan Major League (TML, major, defunct)
China
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China National Baseball League
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China Baseball League (CBL), China (defunct)
Philippines
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Baseball Philippines
The Philippine Amateur Baseball Association (PABA) is the national governing body for amateur baseball in the Philippines.
Presidents
*Dominador Pangilinan (?–1986)
*Hector Navasero (1986–2013)
*Ely Baradas (2013; acting)
*Marty Eizmendi (2 ...
(defunct)
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Philippine Baseball League
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UAAP Baseball Championship
Other
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Iran Baseball Championship
This article contains a list of organized baseball sports league, leagues.
International competition
*Many international baseball events are coordinated by the International Baseball Federation, baseball division of the World Baseball Softball ...
, Iran
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Malaysian All-Star League Baseball, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia
Defunct Leagues
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Israel Baseball League
The Israel Baseball League (IBL; Hebrew: ליגת הבייסבול הישראלית, ''Ligat ha-Beisbol ha-Israelit'') was a six-team professional baseball league in Israel. The first game was played on June 24, 2007.
League structure
The six ...
Europe
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Baseball-Bundesliga
The Baseball-Bundesliga is the professional elite competition for the sport of baseball in Germany. In it, the men's German championship is determined annually. Like most European sports leagues, the Bundesliga uses a system of promotion and ...
, Austria
*Croatian Baseball League, Croatia
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Czech Baseball Extraliga
Czech Baseball Extraliga is a baseball league and the highest level of baseball in the Czech Republic. The league started in 1979, when Tempo Praha won the first championship. In 2020, the Extraliga was one of the first sports leagues in Europe, ...
, Czech Republic
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Interlyga, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Russia
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Baseball Finnish Championship Series
The Baseball Finnish Championship Series (Finnish: ''Baseballin SM-sarja'') has been played in Finland since 1981. Currently the Championship consists of 6 teams, but has had as many as 7 (in 2007). The Championship winner represents Finland in ...
, Finland
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Division Élite
The Division Élite is the highest level of Baseball in France. Its clubs compete for the Championnat de France de baseball.
Organization
It is an eight-team league that plays a 28-game schedule on weekends, with the season running from late Mar ...
, France
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Baseball-Bundesliga
The Baseball-Bundesliga is the professional elite competition for the sport of baseball in Germany. In it, the men's German championship is determined annually. Like most European sports leagues, the Bundesliga uses a system of promotion and ...
, Germany
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Greek Baseball League, Greece
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Hungarian National Baseball League, Hungary
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Irish Baseball League, Ireland
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Italian Baseball League, Italy
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Latvian Baseball League
The Latvian Baseball League (LBL) is the men's amateur league in Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links= ...
, Latvia
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Lithuanian Baseball League
The Lithuanian Baseball Championships (Lietuvos Beisbolo Lyga, LBL) is the men's amateur league in Lithuania
Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic ...
, Lithuania
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Honkbal Hoofdklasse, Netherlands
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Ekstraliga Baseball
The Ekstraliga Baseball is the elite competition for the sport of baseball in Poland. In it, the men's Polish championship is determined annually. Like most European sports leagues, the Ekstraliga uses a system of promotion and relegation. The ...
, Poland
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Bałtycka Liga Baseballu, Poland
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Liga Atlântica de Basebol, Portugal
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, Spain
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Elitserien
Elitserien (literally, "the Elite League") is the name of several Swedish nationwide sport leagues. In many sports, Elitserien is the highest league, with the second highest named Allsvenskan.
Elitserien leagues at present:
* Elitserien (badmint ...
, Sweden
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National Baseball League, United Kingdom
Oceania
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Australian Baseball League
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Greater Brisbane League
The Greater Brisbane League or formerly the Greater Brisbane Baseball Board league (GB3) is the largest baseball league in the Australian state of Queensland and covers all teams from Brisbane North, South, West, Metro as well as three Gold Coas ...
, Australia
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New South Wales Major League
The NSW State Baseball League (previously known as the New South Wales Major League) is the highest amateur level of play for the sport of baseball in New South Wales. The league is currently composed of 9 baseball clubs predominantly from Sydne ...
, Australia
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Palau Major League, Palau
See also
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Sport governing body
A sports governing body is a sports organization that has a regulatory or sanctioning function.
Sports governing bodies come in various forms and have a variety of regulatory functions. Examples of this can include disciplinary action for rule i ...
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Regulation of sport
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Outline of sports#General sports concepts
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Baseball awards
References
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