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The Clark Griffith Collegiate Baseball League (CGL) is a collegiate summer baseball league, with teams located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas, mostly in Northern Virginia. All players must be amateurs by NCAA rules, enrolled at an NCAA school and have at least one year of NCAA eligibility remaining. The CGL is a charter member of the All-American Amateur Baseball Association. The league had five teams in 2009 but has suspended play for the 2010 season.

History
The Clark Griffith Collegiate Baseball League was founded in 1945 and was then known as the National Capital City Junior League. In the earliest years, games were played around Washington, D.C., including on the Ellipse behind the White House. Clark Griffith who then owned the Washington Senators gave the league financial support and when he died in 1955, the league was renamed the Clark Griffith Memorial Baseball League. The name was changed to its present form in 1995.

In 1966 the league began playing all its game on the baseball field at George Mason University. That continued until 1987 when teams began playing on their own home fields.

The league instituted a wooden bat rule in 1993.

More than 50 CGL alumni have gone on the play major league baseball and over 250 have gone on to play minor league baseball.

Noted alumni
See CGL major league alumni.
 * Jonathon Papelbon
 * Cla Meredith
 * Mark Teixeira

Team Sites
Sites of teams that participated in the league in 2009:


 * Carney Pirates
 * DC Grays
 * Fairfax Nationals
 * Vienna Senators
 * Southern Maryland Cardinals

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