Futures Collegiate Baseball League
Current season, competition or edition: 2015 FCBL season
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| Sport | Baseball |
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| Founded | 2010 |
| CEO | Chris Hall |
| Motto | Who will be the first? |
| No. of teams | 9 |
| Country |
 United States
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| Most recent champion(s) |
Nashua Silver Knights |
| Official website | thefuturesleague |
The Futures Collegiate Baseball League (FCBL) is a 9-team collegiate summer baseball league. It has six franchises in Massachusetts, two in New Hampshire, and one in Connecticut.
The Futures League is a wood-bat league. Its regular season schedule calls for 56 games per team (28 home and 28 away games).
FCBL ballplayers are unpaid collegiate athletes who join the league to gain experience and exposure to Major League Baseball scouts. The FCBL mission is to prepare young men for the rigors of playing professional baseball.
The league accepts players who were on college baseball rosters during the preceding spring season. League rules require that at least 15 of the 30 players on a roster have a local connection, either having attended high school in New England or currently attending college in New England.
For the 2017 regular season, games that are tied after 10 innings will be decided by a home-run hitting contest that may take three rounds. Games may end as ties, if the Home Run Derby does not produce a winner. Playoff seedings use a point system like that of the National Hockey League, with 2 points for wins and 1 point for ties and "overtime" losses (games lost via the home-run contest).
The Futures League was co-developed by:
The Carminucci Sports Group sought to place an NECBL franchise on the island of Martha's Vineyard, and the Spinners hoped to do the same in Nashua, New Hampshire. The NECBL declined to expand, so the organizations formed a separate league. The FCBL aimed to use professional baseball operators with proven histories. Most FCBL venues are former professional ballparks (marked with an asterisk in the table below), but some teams play in high-school ballparks.
The league started play in the 2011 season. Martha's Vineyard, Nashua, Seacoast, and Torrington were the charter franchises. The championship paired the top two franchises in a best-of-three series. Nashua (27-16) won the regular season and defeated Torrington (25-17) for the championship.
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