Collegiate summer baseball leagues are amateur baseball leagues featuring players who have attended at least one year of college and have at least one year of athletic eligibility remaining. Generally, they operate from early June to early August. Players use wooden baseball bats, hence the common nickname of these leagues as "wood bat leagues".
To find a collegiate summer team, they work with their college coaches and prospective teams' general managers. They report to summer leagues after completing their spring collegiate season with their NCAA, NAIA, and NJCAA teams. Some players arrive late due to their college team's postseason play, which sometimes runs into early June. In some cases, players are drafted during the collegiate summer season. These draftees can remain with their collegiate summer team until they sign a professional contract. During the season, players are housed by volunteer host families and bussed to and from road games.
The leagues vary greatly in their attendances, quality of play, and ability to attract scouts. The Cape Cod League is considered the premier collegiate summer league. In 2011, Baseball America scouted and ranked Top 10 prospects from 19 leagues, indicated below with (BA). Ballpark Digest tracks attendance for 14 leagues, indicated below with (BD). Many collegiate summer teams occupy cities and ballparks where a minor league team has left a city.
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List of leagues
This list is organized by federation
National Alliance of College Summer Baseball
- Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League - Eastern Pennsylvania; Northern New Jersey; Staten Island New York
- Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League - DC; Central Maryland; Suburban Virginia
- California Collegiate League (BA)
- Cape Cod Baseball League - Cape Cod area of Massachusetts
- Florida Collegiate Summer League - Orlando area
- Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League - Western Ohio; Michigan; Kentucky
- Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League - Eastern Long Island, New York
- New England Collegiate Baseball League - Mainland New England
- New York Collegiate Baseball League - Northwestern New York state
- Southern Collegiate Baseball League - Western North Carolina and Northwestern South Carolina
- Sunbelt Baseball League - Northern Georgia
- Valley Baseball League - Northwestern Virginia
Source:
National Amateur Baseball Federation
- Florida Collegiate Summer League
- Great Lakes United Baseball League
- Metropolitan Collegiate Summer Baseball League of Illinois
- Midwest Collegiate League
- New York Collegiate Baseball League
- Tri-State Collegiate League
National Baseball Congress
- Alaska Baseball League (BA)
- CenTex Collegiate League
- Coastal Collegiate League
- Jayhawk Collegiate League (BA)
- M.I.N.K. Collegiate Baseball League (BA, BD)
- Pacific International League
- Rocky Mountain Baseball League
- Western Baseball Association
Other leagues
- All-American Amateur Baseball Association - Pennsylvania
- Arizona Collegiate Wood Bat League
- Atlantic Baseball Confederation - New Jersey
- Ban Johnson Amateur Baseball League
- Beach Collegiate Summer Baseball League
- Carolina-Virginia Collegiate League
- Centennial State League - Northern Colorado
- Coastal Plain League (BA, BD)
- Collegiate Baseball League Europe
- Connecticut Collegiate Baseball League
- Corn Belt Baseball League
- Far West League
- Futures Collegiate Baseball League (BA, BD)
- Golden State Collegiate Baseball League
- Great West League
- Hawaii Collegiate Baseball League (BA)
- Hudson Valley Collegiate Baseball League
- Lewis & Clark Baseball League
- Mid-Plains League
- Mile High Collegiate Baseball League
- Mountain West Summer Collegiate Baseball League
- New England Collegiate Baseball League (BA, BD)
- New Jersey Amateur Baseball League
- Northwoods League (BA, BD)
- Ohio Valley Summer Collegiate Baseball League
- Pacific Coast Collegiate League
- Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League (BA)
- Prospect League (BA, BD)
- Puget Sound Collegiate League
- Rockingham County Baseball League
- Southern California Collegiate Baseball League
- Texas Collegiate League (BA, BD)
- West Coast League (BA, BD)
- Western Major Baseball League (BD)
Northern Virginia Travel Baseball League Video
Defunct leagues
- Big States League
- Central Illinois Collegiate League
- Clark Griffith Collegiate Baseball League
- Eastern Collegiate Baseball League
- Horizon Air Summer Series (BD)
- KIT Summer Collegiate Baseball League
- Mountain Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League
- Pacific West Baseball League
- Saskatchewan Major Baseball League
- Sierra Baseball League
- St. Louis Metro Collegiate Baseball League (corporate parent dissolved by State of Missouri in 2013)
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