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.