Columbus All-Americans

From BR Bullpen

Location: Columbus, OH
League: Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League
Stadium: Bill Davis Stadium at Ohio State University

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Originally founded in 1976, the Columbus All-Americans became one of the original six founding members of the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League in 1987. Playing their home games at Ohio State University in Columbus, OH, the Columbus All-Americans have a tradition of more than thirty consecutive seasons of training and developing some of the nation's collegiate players for carreers in all levels of professional baseball.

Like other Summer Collegiate Baseball teams, the Columbus All-Americans are dedicated and designed to providing minor league level competition for NCAA players that wish to continue on into professional baseball. The All-Americans operate in a similar manner to a Minor League team: playing nightly in stadiums before fans, using wood bats and minor league specification equipment, and experiencing road trips between games. Like all other summer collegiate players, they are unpaid in order to maintain their NCAA eligibility, and live with host families in the same manner as Single A and Independent League players.

The Columbus All-Americans, along with the Lima Locos, are one of the only two remaining teams from the original six teams of the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League as of 2006.