Western League

Western League may refer to:

  • Western League (original), the predecessor to North American baseball's modern American League
  • Western League (Japanese baseball), one of two professional baseball minor leagues in Japan
  • Western League (defunct minor league), a former minor league baseball loop that ceased operation in 1958
  • Western League (baseball, 1939-41), a Class D, low minor league that existed briefly before World War II
  • Western Baseball League, a former independent minor league which ceased operation in 2002
  • Western Football League, a semi-professional league in the English National League System for soccer
  • Western Football League (US)
  • West of England Premier League, an English cricket league previously known as the Western League

Famous quotes containing the words western and/or league:

    “Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which it is destined to receive thence.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Half a league, half a league,
    Half a league onward,
    All in the valley of Death
    Rode the six hundred.
    “Forward the Light Brigade!”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)