Golden Baseball League

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Golden Baseball League

Founded:	2005
No. of Teams:	7
Class:	Independent
Most recent champion:

The Golden Baseball League was founded in 2004 as an independent minor baseball league. The Golden Baseball League's area is California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah. Play is characterized at the Single-A level.

The league currently operates as an eight team circuit composed of two divisions. The GBL is planning to add additional teams in California and Arizona, plus teams in Oregon and northern Mexico, within five to seven years.

1 League Information
2 Inter-League All-Star Game
3 Teams
4 Trivia
5 External Links
6 See Also

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League Information

The Golden Baseball League is dedicated to bringing professional independent baseball back to California, Nevada and Arizona. Within five to seven years, the Golden Baseball League will establish a ten to twelve team league of minor league baseball teams throughout California, Southern Oregon, Western Arizona, and Northern Mexico.

The GBL does not use the designated hitter rule; rather, pitchers bat for themselves. Player salaries range from $750 to $3,000 per month. Each team's entire payroll is less than a third of what the major league mininum is for one player ($316,000).

The GBL's presenting partner is Safeway Inc. Other investors in the GBL include Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak, former National Football League players Mike Sherrard and Christian Okoye, and executives from Cisco Systems, Taleo, and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, among others.

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Inter-League All-Star Game

The Golden Baseball League (GBL) and the United League Baseball (ULB) will play their All-Star game against each other this season and next. The 2008 game will be played on Tuesday, July 15th in San Angelo, Texas as the San Angelo Colts host the game at the beautiful 4200 seat Foster Field. The 2009 game will be played in southern California hosted by the Orange County Flyers.

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Teams

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Former Teams

San Diego Surf Dawgs - suspended operations following the 2006 season; return possible in 2009.

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Trivia

To poke fun at the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the Armada changed their name in 2007 to the Long Beach Armada of Los Angeles of California of the United States of North America Including Barrow, Alaska.

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