The California Fall League was a professional baseball league located in

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

that was affiliated with

Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB i ...

. The league lasted one season, playing from September to November, 1999.

History

The California Fall League was the third in a series of attempts by

to establish a second winter league to supplement the

Arizona Fall League The Arizona Fall League (AFL) is an off-season baseball league owned and operated by Major League Baseball (MLB) which operates during autumn in Arizona, United States, at six different baseball complexes. Arizona Fall League rosters are filled ...

. In this the California Fall League was preceded by

Hawaii Winter Baseball Hawaii Winter Baseball (HWB), based in Honolulu, Hawaii, was a professional baseball league in the Hawaiian islands. It was loosely affiliated with Major League Baseball (MLB). History The HWB league first began play in 1993. Funded by Major Lea ...

(1994-1997) and Maryland Fall Baseball (1998) and succeeded by Hawaii Winter Baseball (2006-2008). The league played a 42-game schedule between September 23 and November 5 with games Tuesday through Sunday. It averaged below 500 fans per game, fewer than Maryland Fall Baseball had.

Teams

The Lancaster Stealth were the league champions.

References

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History

Teams

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