Coastal Plain League (disambiguation)

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The Coastal Plain League (CPL) is a wood-bat collegiate summer league, featuring college players recruited from throughout the nation. The league takes its name from a Class D minor league baseball league which operated in the area from 1937 to 1952. The modern league was formed with six teams in 1997. The league has expanded over the years with teams across North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia, with the 2018 addition of the Macon Bacon being the most recent addition.

The Coastal Plain League was a Minor league baseball affiliated circuit which, except for the war years (1942–1945), operated in North Carolina between 1937 and 1952. It was classified as a "D" league. It grew out of a semi-pro league that operated from 1935 to 1936 under the same Coastal Plain League name.

The original Coastal Plain League was a semi-professional baseball circuit that operated in North Carolina from 1934 to 1935. The league's teams were composed primarily of college ballplayers, very similar to the current Coastal Plain League which was structured in 1997.

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Wilson Tobs

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Lexington County Blowfish

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Asheboro Copperheads

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