College summer teams.Are their any web sites that tell where these leagues are?Are they all wood bat? Also do the players stay with host familes? Just trying to find some info on the summer leages.
Thanks
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not to toot my own horn, but I run the site below. You might want to check it out.
Check out this prior thread and the links in it:
http://hsbaseballweb.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9886003481/m/5461034892
http://hsbaseballweb.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9886003481/m/5461034892
quote:Originally posted by manshine38:
College summer teams.Are their any web sites that tell where these leagues are?Are they all wood bat? Also do the players stay with host familes? Just trying to find some info on the summer leages.
Thanks
In your area, you have two leagues...the SCBL (with teams in the upstate, WNC, and E. Tenn), and the CPL, with teams in NC, SC, and VA.
My son had the opportunity to play in both last summer. My impression is that the SCBL is a good league for the smaller school players to cut their teeth in...as well as D1 players who may have been red-shirted or perhaps injured to get meaningful game time. A couple of the teams, however, have started to load up on a great number of D1 players. In terms of fans...depending on the team...you may play in front of between 50 and 250 fans a game. The SCBL also has a PITCH COUNT limit that is enforced. Information (web) and promotion is spotty, at best. My son had a great experience there and it was the right "fit" for him in his first summer of wood bat ball.
The CPL I think is in its 15th year. If the SCBL is rookie ball...I think the CPL is AA (in terms of the talent leap). Mostly D1 players, and players from well-respected D2, NAIA, JuCo, and a few D3 (only 10 on last summer's rosters) schools. In addition, most of the teams sell alcohol at games and draw between 800-2500 fans per night. The atmosphere is night and day compared to the SCBL, and the teams and the league do great with the information and promotions. Since this league runs a couple of weeks longer than the SCBL, several teams tend to pick up the guys who have completed the SCBL to bolster rosters for the playoff run.
A third league in the "south" mid-Atlantic is the Valley League, in the valley of VA. I would place this league a slight step above the CPL, in terms of talent. Very very few small college guys in the Valley. Compared to the CPL, smaller fields, no alcohol, but a long-standing tradition of community support and involvement.
A fourth league is the Ripken League, in the Northern VA/DC/So. Maryland area. Looking at the rosters, this is a real up and coming league. Some of the posters in that area could probably give you more information, but I see them competing with the CPL for talent but maybe not quite at the CPL level as of yet.
Just to throw this out there, The East LA Dodgers head coach is looking for guys this summer on another website. If anyone is interested in playing there, PLMK and I will let him know on the other site. I can leave him your email or you can email him yourself.