Athletes in Action Baseball competes as the Alfred Thunder in the New York Collegiate Baseball League. The NYCBL, founded in 1978, is a summer wood bat league sanctioned by the NCAA and partially funded by Major League Baseball. The league gives college players who have not yet signed a professional contract the opportunity to develop their skills at a higher level of play, gain experience with wood bats, and be evaluated by scouts. The NYCBL is located in scenic Upstate New York.
Teams play a 44 game regular season schedule with games beginning in June and ending in the last week in July. All games are 9 innings, with most doubleheaders scheduled on the weekends. The All-Star game will be played in early July, and the League Championship Series concludes in the first week of August.
Many current and former Major League Players have spent a summer playing in the NYCBL including the players below:
Hunter Pence
Tim Hudson
Brad Lidge
Brendan Harris
Steve Kline
Jeremy Accardo
Dallas Braden
Rajai Davis
Scott Sauerbeck
Brett Carroll
Lou Merloni
Josh Kinney
John McDonald
Tim Naehring
Scott Cassidy
