Baseball League optimistic about their future

Ten years after it doubled as a financial ruin, the Australian Baseball League (ABL) has been relaunched in a new format designed to bring some of the world's best in Australia. five fingers


The six-team league has attracted some of Australia's biggest names of the U.S. majors, with Ryan Roland-Smith, Trent Oeltjin, Brad Hughes and Thomas Lucas all committed to the inaugural season.

ABL President Mark Peters believes that with the participation of Major League, in addition to the ABL designed as an alternative off-season to the American competition, the A-League is finally here to stay.

"We want to be where we were ten years ago, with a lot of disappointed people," said Peters at the launch on Thursday.

"There has been a lot of learning experiences and how the players know, there was a lot of good things are happening ten years ago.

"But I had to make, and to convince Major League Baseball, which launched model was sustainable.

"This is an investment of some importance for the majors and do not do things lightly.

"They are a global brand and a very successful brand."

The competition, which begins on November 6 and runs through February, is designed as a winter league to compete with the likes of Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela and not as a rival to the MLB.

Minnesota feeling that helping Hughes said the new competition means a lot to be successful international stars of Australia.

"It does, it's very exciting for us and we can not wait to get there and really play next week," he said. nfl jerseys

"It's something I will remember and something that means a lot to us because it comes back on our shoulders knowing how much we have in this league.

"We are the ambassadors at the moment and is something that will fall on the shoulders (or not).

"We want this success, so that within ten years the subject no children who have something to aspire to and want to play in the Australian Baseball League."