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| Most recent season or competition: 2022 All-Senrian Baseball League Season | |
| Sport | Baseball |
|---|---|
| Founded | June 18, 1936 |
| 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 |
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.
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, 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]
Return to growth
[80s mostly recovering from the 70s; 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
| Defunct teams | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | City | Stadium | Founded | Joined | Ceased operations | Notes | ||
| Nobeoka Mariners | Nobeoka | 1952 | 1974 | Folded due to financial insolvency. The ASBL regards the Nobeoka Otters as the de facto successors to the Mariners. | ||||
| Yosida Whales | Yosida | stadium name | 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 | stadium name | 1932 | 1977 | Folded due to financial insolvency. The ASBL regards the Nisiyama Stars as the de facto successors to the Giants. | |||
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