The New York Collegiate Baseball League (NYCBL) is a collegiate summer baseball league founded in 1978 and sanctioned by the National Association of Summer Baseball and Major League Baseball. Each NYCBL team plays an eight-week, 40-game schedule from June to July with a playoff in early August. Several players from this league have become Major Leaguers. For the 2013 season, the league has 11 teams located in central and western New York.
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