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The Frontier League (FL; French: Ligue Frontière, LF) is a professional baseball league in North America composed of 18 teams – 15 in the United States and 3 in Canada.The FL is one of the eight independent baseball leagues in the United States and Canada, and is considered the oldest current running independent baseball league in the world.
The Northern League and Frontier League both started play in 1993, and the Northern League's success paved the way for other independent leagues like the Texas-Louisiana League and Northeast League. Over the next eight years, at least 16 independent leagues formed, of which six existed in 2002. [ 4 ]
The United Shore Professional Baseball League (USPBL) is an independent baseball league in suburban Metro Detroit, Michigan, United States, started in May 2016. [1] Each team in the USPBL plays a 45-game regular season schedule from May through September, with a mid-season all-star game and a championship game at the conclusion of the regular season. [2]
The American Association of Professional Baseball is an independent professional baseball league founded in 2005. It operates in the central United States and Canada, mostly in cities not served by Major League Baseball teams or their minor league affiliates. Joshua Schaub is the league commissioner. League offices are located in Moorhead ...
Previous Logo until 2024. The Mustangs joined the Class C Pioneer League in 1948, then a full-season league. The club was founded by Brown Derby founder Bob Cobb, a Billings native who enlisted Hollywood stars such as Bing Crosby, Cecil B. DeMille, Robert Taylor, and Barbara Stanwyck to purchase stock at $500 to $1,000 apiece to help launch the club.
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 [ 2 ] [ 3 ] based in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States , and the headquarters are located at Penn Medicine Park in Lancaster, Pennsylvania .
With Major League Baseball playing a reduced season in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, baseball players' salaries took a corresponding hit. The season was shortened from 162 games to just ...
The Mavericks were owned by ex-minor league player and television actor Bing Russell, [6] and were initially the league's only independent club. [7] As owner, Russell kept all corporate sponsorship outside the gates, and hired professional baseball's first female general manager, as well as the first Asian American general manager.