THE ALASKA BASEBALL LEAGUE

The Alaska Baseball League (ABL) is an amateur collegiate summer baseball league, with five teams located in four Alaskan cities. The teams include the the Mat-Su Miners in Palmer, the Chugiak-Eagle River Chinooks in Chugiak, the Anchorage Bucs and Anchorage Glacier Pilots both in Anchorage and the Peninsula Oilers in Kenai. The Alaska League uses wood/wood composite bats and Diamond baseballs.

Like other Summer Collegiate Baseball leagues, the Alaska Baseball League is dedicated and designed to provided minor league level competition for NCAA players that wish to continue on into professional baseball. TheAlaska Baseball League operates in a similar manner to a Minor League team: playing nightly in stadiums before fans, using wood bats and minor league specification equipment, and experiencing road trips between games. Like all other summer collegiate players, they are unpaid in order to maintain their NCAA eligibility, and live with host families in the same manner as Single A and Independent League players. While serving as a crucial player development team, the Alaska Baseball League has continued to push the boundaries of Summer Collegiate Baseball, including foreign players, winning many league national and international titles and bringing their own brand of baseball across the world.