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The '''All-Senria Baseball League''' ({{wp|Japanese language|Senrian}}: 선썬류우야뀨우런메, ''Zensenryuu Yakyuu Renmei''), or '''ASBL''', is the top-level {{wp|Professional sports|professional}} {{wp|baseball}} league in [[Senria]]. Originally formed in 1936, the league currently consists of twenty-four teams divided into two leagues and four divisions.
The '''All-Senria Baseball League''' ({{wp|Japanese language|Senrian}}: 선썬류우야뀨우런메, ''Zensenryuu Yakyuu Renmei''), or '''ASBL''', is the top-level {{wp|Professional sports|professional}} {{wp|baseball}} league in [[Senria]]. Originally formed in 1936, the league currently consists of twenty-four teams divided into two leagues and four divisions.


Baseball was established in Senria by 1900, with small collegiate leagues emerging in the 1910s and the first efforts to organize professional teams occurring in the 1920s; however, the [[Senrian Revolution]] and [[Great War (Kylaris)|Great War]] disrupted the professionalization process, contributing to the ASBL's late founding when compared to the [[Rizealand Baseball League]] and [[Arucian Baseball League]]. The ASBL was established with eight teams in 1936... [split into leagues in the 50s when the league jumps from 8 teams to 12, then the leagues split into divisions in the 60s when it goes from 12 teams to 16; it expands to 20 in the 80s and 24 in the 2000s]
Baseball was established in Senria by 1900, with small collegiate leagues emerging in the 1910s and the first efforts to organize professional teams occurring in the 1920s; however, the [[Senrian Revolution]] and [[Great War (Kylaris)|Great War]] disrupted the professionalization process, contributing to the ASBL's late founding when compared to the [[Rizealand Baseball League]] and [[Arucian Baseball League]]. The ASBL was established with eight teams in 1936, with the league's early years defined by {{wp|Barnstorming (sports)|barnstorming}} and a {{wp|Dead-ball era|dead-ball}} tendency caused by rubber rationing. As its popularity grew, the ASBL was expanded from 8 teams to 12 in 1952 and to 16 teams in 1960; to accomodate the larger number of teams, it was subdivided into the [[Mountain League]] and [[Ocean League]] with its 1952 expansion and into four divisions, two in each league, with the 1960 expansion.
 
The league experienced its greatest troubles in the 1970s; {{wp|Cheating in baseball|cheating}} & {{wp|match fixing}} scandals damaged baseball's reputation in Senria, and many teams were revealed to be plagued by financial problems. Stringent punishments for unsportsmanlike behavior and a revenue-sharing arrangement returned stability to the ASBL, which spent the early-to-mid 1980s recovering. Expansion of the league resumed in 1987, followed by a fourth wave in 2006, bringing the ASBL up to its current 24-team roster.


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Revision as of 12:00, 10 February 2023

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All-Senria Baseball League
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2022 All-Senria Baseball League Season
ASBL logo.png
SportBaseball
FoundedJune 18, 1936; 88 years ago (1936-06-18)
Commissionertbd
No. of teams24
Countries Senria
Headquarterstbd street
Keisi, Senria
Most recent
champion(s)
Ukyou Ravens (3rd title)
(2021)
Most titlesKeisi Dragons (22 titles)
TV partner(s)Senria
Broadcast
tbd
Live streaming
tbd
International
Live streaming
tbd
Domestic cup(s)All-Senria Championship Series
Related
competitions
National League
Central League
Senrian Women's Baseball League
Official websitewww.asbl.sn

The All-Senria Baseball League (Senrian: 선썬류우야뀨우런메, Zensenryuu Yakyuu Renmei), or ASBL, is the top-level professional baseball league in Senria. Originally formed in 1936, the league currently consists of twenty-four teams divided into two leagues and four divisions.

Baseball was established in Senria by 1900, with small collegiate leagues emerging in the 1910s and the first efforts to organize professional teams occurring in the 1920s; however, the Senrian Revolution and Great War disrupted the professionalization process, contributing to the ASBL's late founding when compared to the Rizealand Baseball League and Arucian Baseball League. The ASBL was established with eight teams in 1936, with the league's early years defined by barnstorming and a dead-ball tendency caused by rubber rationing. As its popularity grew, the ASBL was expanded from 8 teams to 12 in 1952 and to 16 teams in 1960; to accomodate the larger number of teams, it was subdivided into the Mountain League and Ocean League with its 1952 expansion and into four divisions, two in each league, with the 1960 expansion.

The league experienced its greatest troubles in the 1970s; cheating & match fixing scandals damaged baseball's reputation in Senria, and many teams were revealed to be plagued by financial problems. Stringent punishments for unsportsmanlike behavior and a revenue-sharing arrangement returned stability to the ASBL, which spent the early-to-mid 1980s recovering. Expansion of the league resumed in 1987, followed by a fourth wave in 2006, bringing the ASBL up to its current 24-team roster.

[stuff on season structure]

The ASBL is Senria's most popular professional sports league... [stuff on popularity]

[stuff on champions]

The All-Senria Baseball League also oversees Senria's minor leagues, the National League and the Central League, and the Senrian Women's Baseball League.

Organizational structure

History

Origins

[arrival of baseball in senria and its establishment as widespread and popular by 1900]

[collegiate leagues begin appearing in the 1910s, but then the senrian revolution disrupts things]

[efforts to establish professional teams and barnstorm in the asterias appear in the 1920s, but then the great war disrupts things]

Establishment and early years

[30s - initial eight are the reds/foxes, sparrows/dragons, white lions, falcons/giants, tigers, stars, steelworkers, whales, only the senrian series w/ top two teams for the post-season; gov't-supported as a sign of a "return to normalcy" after years of war, a lot of intranational barnstorming as bread-and-circuses for the weary senrian masses]

[40s - things settle down]

Initial expansion

['52 expansion - blues/bears, mariners, unions/eagles, oxen; ASBL divided into ocean & mountain, with implementation of interleague play to try and keep lucrative rivalry matchups intact even as rivals are put in different leagues, postseason changed to top teams from each league going to the series]

['60 expansion - pheasants, stags, clippers/seagulls, ravens; leagues divided into divisions, designated hitter rule implemented in the ocean league, postseason now sees series between top division teams to determine which team from each league heads to the series]

The "Troubled 1970s"

[1970s - a match-fixing scandal in '72 shakes fan faith; turns out a lot of teams are actually not doing great financially; and the mariners and whales fold, forcing the promotion of minor league teams koriyama and toyotori to keep the roster full; the tukayama oxen move to isikawa to invent a lucrative cross-town rivalry with the foxes, which kills the nisiyama giants financially, which forces the promotion of minor league team sekiguti; the stars abandon ubeyama in the hopes of capturing the abandoned nisiyama & tukayama markets]

[to stop any further bullshit in this regard, the league finally implements revenue sharing in 1979]

A map showing prefectures containing an ASBL team as of 2023.

Return to growth

[80s mostly recovering from the 70s, bar the designated hitter rule being implemented league-wide; expansion only resumed in '87 with the stallions, sea lions, timberwolves, and tanuki]

[90s are keeping it steady]

Recent history

[2006 expansion - phoenixes, warriors, otters, hares]

[2010s and 2020s - schedule tweaked, for the postseason the top two teams in each division now play each other to see who goes to the league championship]

Teams

All-Senria Baseball League
Division Team City Stadium Capacity Founded Joined
Ocean League
West Isikawa Foxes Isikawa Isikawa Municipal Stadium 30,100 1936
Keisi Dragons Keisi Kinkeidou Sankakusu Dome 36,600 1936
Nakamura Bears Nakamura New Nakamura Stadium 34,100 1952
Nisiyama Stars Nisiyama (car co) Field 31,000 1936
Tosei Eagles Tosei Kumanomiya Stadium 37,900 1952
Ubeyama Tanuki Ubeyama Keiou Miura Life Dome 40,100 1987
East Kasaoka Sea Lions Kasaoka Kasaoka Hikaron Field 34,100 1987
Keisi Timberwolves Keisi Zuunikyuu Stadium 46,200 1987
Koriyama Vipers Koriyama (phone service co) Koriyama Park 30,500 1974
Sakata Seagulls Sakata Iwataya Hosokawa Banking Stadium 30,200 1960
Ueda Steelworkers Ueda Itakura Steel Company Stadium 27,700 1936
Ukyou Ravens Ukyou Ukyou Nagoyaka Stadium 33,900 1960
Mountain League
West Hukuyama Pheasants Hukuyama (private rail co) Hukuyama Stadium 33,000 1960
Isikawa Oxen Isikawa Maeda Group Stadium 32,000 1952
Keisi White Lions Keisi Keisi Sisiya Dome 38,500 1936
Nobeoka Otters Nobeoka Toyohira Dome 32,400 2006
Tosei Tigers Tosei Startiger Kagurasaka Dome 45,600 1936
Toyotori Cranes Toyotori (department store) Park 31,100 1974
East Hisakawa Stallions Hisakawa (other phone service co) Stadium 28,700 1987
Itimura Phoenixes Itimura Everbright Dome 40,500 2006
Katuyama Stags Katuyama Edosima Field Katuyama 28,400 1960
Keisi Warriors Keisi Aikawa Ageo Stadium 35,000 2006
Sekiguti Robins Sekiguti Keicera Stadium 27,000 1977
Yokomatu Hares Yokomatu Yokomatu City Baseball Park 25,500 2006
Defunct teams
Team City Stadium Founded Joined Ceased operations Notes
Nobeoka Mariners Nobeoka Yatigasira Park 1952 1974 Folded due to financial insolvency. The ASBL regards the Nobeoka Otters as the de facto successors to the Mariners.
Yosida Whales Yosida Kanagawa Stadium 1932 1974 Folded due to financial insolvency. The ASBL regards the Kasaoka Sea Lions as the de facto successors to the Whales.
Nisiyama Giants Nisiyama Kairakuen Stadium 1932 1977 Folded due to financial insolvency. The ASBL regards the Nisiyama Stars as the de facto successors to the Giants.

Timeline


Rules

Expatriate players

ASBL players abroad

Season structure

Senrian Series records
Team Number
of Series
won
Last
Series
won
Series
played
Last
Series
played
Keisi Dragons (OL) 20 2017 30 2017
Keisi White Lions (ML) 15 2009 26 2021
Tosei Tigers (ML) 12 2008 24 2022
Isikawa Foxes (OL) 7 2020 17 2020
Tosei Eagles (OL) 5 2013 8 2013
Nisiyama Giants (ML) 3 1969 5 1969
Ukyou Ravens (OL) 3 2021 5 2021
Koriyama Vipers (OL) 3 2006 4 2006
Nakamura Bears (ML to OL, 1979) 2 1964 8 2016
Isikawa Oxen (ML) 2 1980 5 2019
Ubeyama Tanuki (OL) 2 2014 3 2014
Nobeoka Otters (ML) * 2 2015 3 2015
Nisiyama Stars (OL to ML, 1979;
ML to OL, 1987)
†*
1 1956 5 1990
Yosida Whales (OL) 1 1945 4 1970
Katuyama Stags (ML) 1 2004 3 2017
Toyotori Cranes (ML) 1 2010 3 2010
Ueda Steelworkers (OL) 1 1978 3 1997
Hisakawa Stallions (ML) 1 2001 2 2006
Kasaoka Sea Lions (ML to OL, 2006) * 1 2022 2 2022
Keisi Timberwolves (ML to OL, 2006) 1 2005 2 2012
Nobeoka Mariners (ML) 1 1963 2 1970
Sakata Seagulls (OL) 1 1998 2 2008
Sekiguti Robins (ML) 1 2016 1 2016
Hukuyama Pheasants (ML) 0 1 2013
Itimura Phoenixes (ML) 0 1 2020
Yokomatu Hares (ML) 0 1 2018
Keisi Warriors (ML) 0 0
OL=Ocean League
ML=Mountain League
† Totals include a team's record in a previous city or under another name
(see team article for details).
* Totals do not include the record of a defunct team regarded as a team's
de facto predecessor by the ASBL (see team article for details).
‡ Team is now defunct.

Regular season

[team schedules organized into smaller 3-game series, generally grouped into homestands (2 or 3 series where the team plays at home) and awaystands (2 or 3 series where the team plays away); each team plays 15 games total - or 5 series - against every other team in its division, 9 games - or 3 series - against every other team in the same league but not the same division, 3 games - or 1 series - against every other team in the other league, and an additional 3 games - or 1 series - against each team's "natural rival" in the other league, for a 168 game standard season; probably implemented in the 2010s as a refinement of a system implemented with the 2006 expansion which itself is based ultimately on the systems implemented in the 50s and 60s expansions]

[the season typically begins in late september or early october (as senria is southern hemisphere) and ends in late march or early april, with doubleheaders used - if sparingly compared to the arucian and rizealander leagues - to account for holidays and the possibility of rainouts; most weeks a senrian team will play every day but monday]

Postseason

[post-season held in late april or early may; the two best teams from each division play each other in a five-game series to determine who wins each division, then the winners from each division play each other in another five-game series to see who wins the league pennant]

[then the winning teams from each league play each other in the seven-game all-senria championship series to determine who is champion; some prattling on about the series here since the "championship" section is just the table of champions, things like which teams and leagues are the winningest (37 ocean, 34 mountain) and how they try to handle home field advantage]

Off-season

[off-season stuff - resting, touring, training - specifics tbd later]

Champions

Year Winning team Series Losing team
1936 Keisi Sparrows X-X Tosei Tigers
1937 Tosei Tigers X-X Keisi Sparrows
1938 Keisi White Lions X-X Isikawa Reds
1939 Keisi White Lions X-X Keisi Sparrows
1940 Keisi Dragons X-X Nisiyama Falcons
1941 Keisi Dragons X-X Tosei Tigers
1942 Nisiyama Falcons X-X Ubeyama Stars
1943 Keisi White Lions X-X Tosei Tigers
1944 Tosei Tigers X-X Nisiyama Falcons
1945 Yosida Whales X-X Keisi White Lions
1946 Isikawa Red Foxes X-X Keisi Dragons
1947 Keisi Dragons X-X Tosei Tigers
1948 Tosei Tigers X-X Keisi White Lions
1949 Keisi Dragons X-X Keisi White Lions
1950 Keisi Dragons X-X Ubeyama Stars
1951 Tosei Tigers X-X Nisiyama Giants
1952 Keisi White Lions X-X Keisi Dragons
1953 Keisi Dragons X-X Keisi White Lions
1954 Isikawa Red Foxes X-X Tosei Tigers
1955 Tosei Tigers X-X Yosida Whales
1956 Ubeyama Stars X-X Keisi White Lions
1957 Nakamura Blues X-X Keisi Dragons
1958 Keisi Dragons X-X Nakamura Blues
1959 Keisi Dragons X-X Tosei Tigers
1960 Tosei Tigers X-X Isikawa Red Foxes
1961 Keisi White Lions X-X Yosida Whales
1962 Nisiyama Giants X-X Keisi Dragons
1963 Nobeoka Mariners X-X Tosei Eagles
1964 Nakamura Blues X-X Tosei Eagles
1965 Tosei Eagles X-X Tosei Tigers
1966 Keisi Dragons X-X Tosei Tigers
1967 Tukayama Oxen X-X Isikawa Foxes
1968 Keisi Dragons X-X Nisiyama Giants
1969 Nisiyama Giants X-X Ukyou Ravens
1970 Keisi Dragons X-X Nobeoka Mariners
1971 Keisi Dragons X-X Yosida Whales
1972 Tosei Eagles X-X Tukayama Oxen
1973 Keisi Dragons X-X Tosei Tigers
1974 Keisi Dragons X-X Nakamura Bears
1975 Keisi Dragons X-X Keisi White Lions
1976 Tosei Tigers X-X Isikawa Foxes
1977 Keisi Dragons X-X Tosei Tigers
1978 Ueda Steelworkers X-X Keisi White Lions
1979 Isikawa Foxes X-X Nisiyama Stars
1980 Isikawa Oxen X-X Isikawa Foxes
1981 Keisi Dragons X-X Nisiyama Stars
1982 Koriyama Sentinels X-X Katuyama Stags
1983 Tosei Tigers X-X Ukyou Ravens
1984 Ukyou Ravens X-X Toyotori Cranes
1985 Ukyou Ravens X-X Isikawa Oxen
1986 Keisi White Lions X-X Keisi Dragons
1987 Keisi White Lions X-X Nakamura Bears
1988 Keisi White Lions X-X Nakamura Bears
1989 Keisi White Lions X-X Ueda Steelworkers
1990 Keisi White Lions X-X Nisiyama Stars
1991 Isikawa Foxes X-X Keisi White Lions
1992 Keisi White Lions X-X Tosei Eagles
1993 Keisi White Lions X-X Tosei Eagles
1994 Keisi White Lions X-X Isikawa Foxes
1995 Tosei Eagles X-X Toyotori Cranes
1996 Keisi White Lions X-X Ubeyama Tanuki
1997 Tosei Tigers X-X Ueda Steelworkers
1998 Sakata Seagulls X-X Keisi White Lions
1999 Tosei Tigers X-X Koriyama Vipers
2000 Tosei Tigers X-X Keisi Dragons
2001 Hisakawa Wild Stallions X-X Nakamura Bears
2002 Keisi Dragons X-X Kasaoka Sea Lions
2003 Koriyama Vipers X-X Tosei Tigers
2004 Katuyama Stags X-X Tosei Eagles
2005 Keisi Timberwolves X-X Keisi Dragons
2006 Koriyama Vipers X-X Hisakawa Wild Stallions
2007 Nobeoka Otters X-X Keisi Dragons
2008 Tosei Tigers X-X Sakata Seagulls
2009 Keisi White Lions X-X Isikawa Foxes
2010 Toyotori Cranes X-X Isikawa Foxes
2011 Ubeyama Tanuki X-X Keisi White Lions
2012 Tosei Eagles X-X Keisi Timberwolves
2013 Tosei Eagles X-X Hukuyama Pheasants
2014 Ubeyama Tanuki X-X Nobeoka Otters
2015 Nobeoka Otters X-X Keisi Dragons
2016 Sekiguti Robins X-X Nakamura Bears
2017 Keisi Dragons X-X Katuyama Stags
2018 Isikawa Foxes X-X Yokomatu Hares
2019 Isikawa Foxes X-X Isikawa Oxen
2020 Isikawa Foxes X-X Itimura Phoenixes
2021 Ukyou Ravens X-X Keisi White Lions
2022 Kasaoka Sea Lions X-X Tosei Tigers

Awards and records

International play