The Florida Collegiate Summer League (FCSL) is a six-team wood bat collegiate summer baseball league located in the Central

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region of the southeastern

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. The league was founded in the fall of 2003 and began play in the summer of 2004. It is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to "advance college players toward their futures in professional baseball.""About The Florida Collegiate Summer League" at floridaleague.co

URL accessed January 2, 2009 360 players have been drafted in the first thirteen seasons including 33 in the 2016 MLB Draft. FCSL has had 16 alumni play in Major League Baseball, including New York Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom, Milwaukee Brewers catcher

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, Miami Marlins second baseman

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, Colorado Rockies pitcher Mike McClendon, Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Jimmy Nelson, and San Francisco Giants pitcher

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. The FCSL is one of twelve leagues in the National Alliance of College Summer Baseball.

Teams

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(2011-12) / bar:13 color:Full from:2013 till:2015 text: College Park Freedom (2013-14) bar:14 color:Full from:2014 till:end text: Winter Garden Squeeze (2014-present) bar:16 color:Full from:2015 till:end text: Altamonte Springs Boom (2015-present) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:1 start:2004 TextData = fontsize:L textcolor:black pos:(0,30) tabs:(400-center) text:^"Florida Collegiate Summer League" #> If the chart uses more than one bar color, add a legend by selecting the appropriate fields from the following three options (use only the colors that are used in the graphic.) Leave a blank line after the end of the timeline, then add a line with the selected values from the list, separated by a space. <#

Alumni (top-five round picks and notables)

(*) = Reached the Major Leagues

Champions

Award winners

Celebrity golf tournament

Every November, the Florida League hosts a celebrity golf tournament at Interlachen Country Club in

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. Money raised from the event helps fund the League throughout the year. The weekend-long event includes a hitting & pitching clinic for kids, a catered pairings dinner, a meet-and-greet with the celebrities, a silent auction and the round of golf. Celebrity appearances have been made by dozens of current and former MLB players including:

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, Gary Carter,

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, B.J. Upton,

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, Vince Coleman and many others.

High school invitational

In an effort to reach out to baseball players of all levels, the FCSL also hosts multiple spring break tournaments during the month of March. All games are held at Historic Sanford Memorial Stadium in Sanford, FL. These tournaments, known as the Florida High School Invitational, bring in teams from all over the United States. The 2013 tournament featured twenty-three teams from across the country. Notable prospects who have participated in the FHSI include

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(#6 overall pick, 2012, Chicago Cubs), Dante Bichette, Jr. (1st round pick, 2011, New York Yankees),

Francisco Lindor Francisco Miguel Lindor Serrano (born November 14, 1993), nicknamed "Paquito" and "Mr. Smile", is a Puerto Rican professional baseball shortstop for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Cleveland Indian ...

(#8 overall pick, 2011, Cleveland Indians), Javier Baez (#9 overall pick, 2011, Chicago Cubs), Greg Bird (5th round, 2011, New York Yankees), Tomas Nido (8th round, 2012, New York Mets), Chris Okey (All-American), and

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(All-American).

References

External links

Official website
{{FCSL College baseball leagues in the United States Baseball leagues in Florida Summer baseball leagues 2003 establishments in Florida Sports leagues established in 2003