History
The American Association was founded in October 2005 when Northern League teams left that league. Following the folding of the Central Baseball League, five teams from that league joined with the four former Northern League franchises, and to even things out an expansion team was placed in St. Joseph, Missouri. The league began play in 2006, with a 96-game schedule. The Fort Worth Cats defeated the St. Paul Saints 3 games to 2, to win the first league championship. The same two teams met for the 2007 title, with exactly the same result. In 2008, the Sioux Falls Canaries won the league championship series 3 games to 1 over the Grand Prairie AirHogs.
The 2012 season, schedule has been increased to one hundred games which will feature five teams from the Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball. These teams include; Newark Bears, New Jersey Jackals, Rockland Boulders, Québec Capitales and the Worcester Tornadoes.
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