Valley Baseball League
From SoSH
| Founded: | 1923 |
| No. of Teams: | 11 |
| Class: | Collegiate |
| Most recent champion: | Moses Lake Pirates |
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League Information
Profile
The Valley Baseball League is an NCAA sanctioned baseball league in the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia. Each Valley Baseball League season consists of 44 games played during summer. Many Valley Baseball League players have continued on to play in Major League Baseball.
The league was started in 1923 and sanctioned by the NCAA in 1961. It has been a wooden bat league since 1992. It is only one of the eight NCAA sanctioned leagues, in the National Alliance of Collegiate Summer Baseball.
The league features 11 teams with the Fauquier Gators joining the league in 2007. The Valley League name is derived from the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, which is nestled between the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east and the Allegheny Mountains to the west.
In 2008, The Valley Baseball League will expand to include two new teams.
Teams
Current
- Covington Lumberjacks
- Fauquier Gators
- Front Royal Cardinals
- Harrisonburg Turks
- Haymarket Senators
- Luray Wranglers
- New Market Rebels
- Staunton Braves
- Waynesboro Generals
- Winchester Royals
- Woodstock River Bandits
VBL Alumni in the Major Leagues
- Roberto Hernandez, Front Royal
- Brandon Inge, Waynesboro ’96
- Mike Lowell, Waynesboro ’93
- Mike Maroth, Staunton ’96 ’97
- Sam Perlozzo, New Market ’72
- Juan Pierre, Harrisonburg ’97
- Chris Ray, New Market ’01
- Javier Lopez, New Market ’96
- Kyle Snyder, Winchester ’97
VBL Alumni in the Red Sox System
- Andrew Dobies, Staunton ’03, Portland/AA
- Chris Durbin, Harrisonburg ’00, Portland/AA
- Rob Henkel, New Market ’97, Pawtucket/AAA
- Matt Mercurio, Waynesboro '04, Greenville/Low A
- Yahmed Yema, Loudon '04, Greenville/Low A
