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Clark C. Griffith Collegiate Baseball League
Sport
| Baseball
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Founded
| 1945
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No. of teams
| 5
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Country
| United States
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Most recent
champion(s)
| Vienna Senators
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Official website
| Official website
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The
Clark C. Griffith Collegiate Baseball League
(
CGL
) was a
collegiate summer baseball league
, with teams located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. All league players had to be enrolled at a
National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) school, have at least one year of
NCAA
eligibility remaining and be amateurs by
NCAA
rules.
[1]
The CGL was a charter member of the
All-American Amateur Baseball Association
and was designated a Premier League by the
National Baseball Congress
. The league had five teams in 2009 but suspended play for the 2010 season and does not appear to have been operational since.
[2]
History
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The Clark Griffith Collegiate Baseball League was founded in 1945 and was then known as the
National Capital City Junior League
. In the earliest years, games were played around Washington, D.C., including on
The Ellipse
behind the
White House
.
Clark Griffith
who then owned the
Washington Senators
(now Minnesota Twins) gave the league financial support. When he died in 1955, the league was renamed the
Clark Griffith Memorial Baseball League
. The name was changed to its final form in 1995.
In 1966 the league began playing all its game on the baseball field at
George Mason University
. That continued until 1987 when teams began playing on their own home fields.
[3]
The league instituted a rule requiring the use of only wooden bats in competition in 1993.
[4]
More than 50 CGL alumni went on to play
Major League Baseball
and over 250 went on to play
Minor League Baseball
.
Noted alumni
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See:
[1]
References
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External links
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Team sites
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Sites of teams that participated in the league in 2009: