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The New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) is a 13-team collegiate summer baseball league founded in 1993 and sanctioned by the NCAA and Major League Baseball. Each NECBL team plays an eight-week, 44-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. Along with the Cape Cod Baseball League, Northwoods League, and Coastal Plain League, it is considered one of the top summer leagues in the country and is a part of the National Alliance of College Summer Baseball.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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.^[4] 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. The NECBL became a 13-team league in 2013 with the addition of teams in Rhode Island (Ocean State Waves), Massachusetts (Plymouth Pilgrims) and New York (Saratoga Brigade) (the league's first team to operate outside New England), but reverted to 12 teams after the Brigade folded. On October 30, 2015, the league announced the formation of an expansion franchise based in Hartford, Vermont that would begin play in 2016, bringing the league size back up to 13 teams.^[5] The league reverted back to 12 teams after the Plymouth Pilgrims ceased operations at the conclusion of the 2018 league year.^[6] In 2019, the League expanded back to 13 teams with the addition of the Martha's Vineyard Sharks, a former member of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League.

The NECBL's current commissioner is Sean McGrath, former general manager of the North Adams SteepleCats. McGrath replaced Mario Tiani, who retired following the 2012 season.

Current franchises

Former teams

Relocated or renamed teams

Defunct teams

Season structure

For the current season, the league is divided into two six-team divisions, the North Division and the South Division. During the regular season, teams play in-division opponents a total of six times, three games at home and three away. Teams play out-of-division opponents twice, one game at home and one away. These games make up the 42 game regular season schedule. When doubleheaders are scheduled due to inclement weather, NECBL rules dictate that they are two seven-inning games. Until the end of the 2016 season, NECBL regular season games had 2 umpires, while All-Star and playoff games have 3 or 4 umpires. As of the 2017 season, all NECBL regular season games have 3-man umpiring crews. The top four teams from each division qualify for the playoffs. In the division semifinal round the first seeds play the fourth seeds and the second seeds play the third seeds, respectively, in best-of-three series. The winners of the division semifinals advance to the division finals, where they play a best-of-three series against their fellow division finalist. The division champions advance to the NECBL championship series, where they face each other in a best-of-three series to decide the NECBL champion.

Past champions

In the NECBL's history, the most successful team is the Newport Gulls, with six league championships and eleven championship series appearances (including one championship appearance as the Cranston, Rhode Island-based Rhode Island Gulls). The defunct North Shore Navigators franchise had four league titles. The Keene Swamp Bats have four league titles. The Vermont Mountaineers have three league titles. A pair of franchises have won two championships, the Sanford Mainers and the defunct Central Mass Collegians. The Mystic Schooners won a single championship, when the team was known as the Eastern Tides in the league's inaugural 1994 season.^[8]

Notable alumni

The following former NECBL players have gone on to play in Major League Baseball.^[9] Former NECBL players have reached the major league rosters of all thirty MLB teams, the thirtieth team being the Philadelphia Phillies when, in September 2015, Brian Bogusevic debuted with the team.^[10]

Media

All NECBL games are broadcast online through the NECBL Broadcast Network, with Pointstreak providing both audio and video for all games.^[11]

On May 14, 2010, the league signed an agreement with Pointstreak. Pointstreak provides "real-time scoring, official statistics, and administration services" to the NECBL. A highlight of Pointstreak's services is Game Live, a real-time statistics feature providing play-by-play for every NECBL game.^[12]

See also

Notes

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://collegebaseball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=693160|last=Rogers|first=Kendall|title=Kendall's Mailbag: Ducks in a row|work=Rivals.com College Baseball|accessdate=June 8, 2011|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5zIHCNjGX|archivedate=June 8, 2011|date=July 20, 2007}}
2. ^{{cite web|last=Nation|first=Boyd|title=Talent Levels for the 2010 College Summer Leagues|url=http://www.boydsworld.com/data/summertalent.html|work=Boyd's World|accessdate=February 21, 2012|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/65cqhKtsb|archivedate=February 21, 2012|date=September 21, 2010|quote=Overall, other than the clearcut win for the Cape, this leaves me a little fuzzy as to who's second, or to even who the second tier is. Overall, the NECBL, Jayhawk, and Northwoods leagues look good, but if you pay less attention to the D1% column (which may be reasonable, given the strength of the California JC ranks, for example), the California and West Coast leagues may join them.}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=2012 Baseball Season Preview Part 1: Q&A with Head Coach Brett Boretti|url=http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=205385461|work=GoColumbiaLions.com|publisher=Columbia University Athletics|accessdate=March 4, 2012|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/65uxS1Qkz|archivedate=March 4, 2012|date=February 23, 2012}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=NECBL Goes with 10 Teams for 2012|url=http://ballparkdigest.com/201202114510/college-baseball/news/necbl-goes-with-10-teams-for-2012|work=BallparkDigest.com|accessdate=February 21, 2012|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/65cqPmXqk|archivedate=February 21, 2012|date=February 11, 2012}}
5. ^{{Cite web|title = on Pointstreak Sports Technologies|url = http://pointstreak.com/news_story.html?id=345213|website = Pointstreak Sports Technologies|accessdate = 2015-11-02}}
6. ^{{Cite news|url=http://plymouth.wickedlocal.com/sports/20181102/plymouth-pilgrims-baseball-franchise-ceases-operations|title=Plymouth Pilgrims baseball franchise ceases operations|last=Wolcott|first=David|work=Wicked Local Plymouth|access-date=2018-11-25|language=en}}
7. ^Berkshire Dukes Box Score, c. 2004 URL accessed June 5, 2009 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031082007/http://www.necbl.com/2004webstats/724RRBD.HTM |date=October 31, 2007 }}
8. ^NECBL Record Book at necbl.com, URL accessed July 22, 2009 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710050112/http://www.necbl.com/NECBLRecordBook.htm |date=July 10, 2009 }}
9. ^{{cite web|title=NECBL Alumni|url=http://www.necbl.com/view/necbl/necbl-alumni-3|website=NECBL|publisher=New England Collegiate Baseball League|accessdate=15 April 2017}}
10. ^{{cite web|title=League|url=http://www.necbl.com/view/necbl/league-49|website=NECBL|publisher=New England Collegiate Baseball League|accessdate=16 April 2017}}
11. ^NECBL Broadcast Network at necbl.com, URL accessed June 4, 2010. [https://www.webcitation.org/5qEU68mnn Archived] June 4, 2010
12. ^NECBL Signs Agreement with Pointstreak at necbl.com, URL accessed June 4, 2010. [https://www.webcitation.org/5qEUX8gaz Archived] June 4, 2010