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All-Senrian Baseball League

Most recent season or competition: 2022 All-Senrian Baseball League Season
Sport	Baseball
Founded	June 18, 1936 (1936-06-18)
Commissioner	tbd
No. of teams	24
Countries	Senria
Headquarters	Keisi, Senria
Most recent champion(s)	tbd (2021)
Most titles	tbd
Domestic cup(s)	All-Senria Championship Series
Related competitions	National League Central League Senrian Women's Baseball League
Official website	www.asbl.sn

The All-Senria Baseball League (Senrian: hangul, Zensenryuu Yakyuu Renmei), or ASBL, is the top-level professional baseball league in Senria. Formed in 1936, the league consists of twenty-four teams divided into two leagues and four divisions as of 2022.

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... [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]

[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.

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 Itimura	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

Season structure

Senrian Series records
Team	Number of Series won	Last Series won	Series played	Last Series played
Keisi Dragons (OL) †	20	2017	31	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	4	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	4	1990
‡ Yosida Whales (OL)	1	1945	4	1970
Katuyama Stags (ML)	1	2004	3	2017
Hisakawa Stallions (ML) †	1	2001	3	2006
Toyotori Cranes (ML)	1	2010	3	2010
Ueda Steelworkers (OL)	1	1978	3	1997
Kasaoka Sea Lions (OL)	1	2022	2	2022
Keisi Timberwolves (OL)	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).
‡ 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 and how they try to handle home field advantage]

Off-season

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

Champions

Main article: All-Senria Championship Series

Awards and records

Main article: List of All-Senria Baseball League career records