All-American Baseball Challenge

The All-American Baseball Challenge is a six-team recreational baseball league formed in July 2020.[1] Local ownership quickly organized this pop up league in response to the cancellation of the professional 2020 Frontier League season in Pomona, NY due to COVID-19.

Spectators are permitted to attend its events. Social distancing and safety guidelines are followed during all of these, and attendance is limited to 500 unless state regulations change.

Teams[2]

AABC Team	Manager	Home Stadium
New Jersey Jackals	Jimmy Efre	Yogi Berra Stadium
Jersey Wise Guys	Scott Iselhart	Yogi Berra Stadium
Rockland Boulders	Albert Gonzalez	Palisades Credit Union Park
New York Brave	Andrew Romanella	Palisades Credit Union Park
Sussex County Miners	Simon Walters	Skylands Stadium
Skylands Cardinals	Vladimir Fontalvo, Jr.	Skylands Stadium

The league features players from independent, affiliated minor league, and college baseball.[3]

Rules

A 28 game regular season schedule started on July 23 and will end on September 6. It will be followed by a 3 game postseason.

All games are scheduled for 9 innings and are held on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

No new inning will be started after 3 hours have elapsed since first pitch, unless it is the 9th inning.

Contests tied after nine innings will use a home run derby to decide the winning team. A player on each team will take five batting practice swings and the player with more home runs wins the game for his team.

Two umpires are used to officiate contests.[4]

GameChanger is the official scoring/statistical tracking platform for the league.

References

Tredinnick, Andrew (July 16, 2020). "Independent minor-league All-American Baseball Challenge heading to Skylands Stadium". Daily Record (Morristown). Gannett. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
"Palisades Credit Union Park to host All-American Baseball Challenge Weekend schedule to begin July 23. – Frontier League". Retrieved 2020-08-05.
"PressRelease". New York Boulders. NewYorkBoulders. July 14, 2020. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
"Game Changer - All American Baseball Challenge- July 23, 2020 - September 12, 2020". Game Changer. Retrieved 5 August 2020.

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[Daily_Record_(Morristown)_-_26_July_2020_-_Independent_minor-league_All-American_Baseball_Challenge_heading_to_Skylands_Stadium-1] Tredinnick, Andrew (July 16, 2020). "Independent minor-league All-American Baseball Challenge heading to Skylands Stadium". Daily Record (Morristown). Gannett. Retrieved 3 August 2020.

[:0-2] "Palisades Credit Union Park to host All-American Baseball Challenge Weekend schedule to begin July 23. – Frontier League". Retrieved 2020-08-05.

[NYB7-14-20-3] "PressRelease". New York Boulders. NewYorkBoulders. July 14, 2020. Retrieved July 14, 2020.

[Game_Changer_-All_American_Baseball_Challenge-_July_23,_2020_-_September_12,_2020-4] "Game Changer - All American Baseball Challenge- July 23, 2020 - September 12, 2020". Game Changer. Retrieved 5 August 2020.