Cranberry Baseball League
Excellence In Amateur Baseball Since Eisenhower Was President

About The League

Since its inception in 1960, The Cranberry Baseball League has provided a venue for the area’s best amateur, collegiate and former professional players, coaches and umpires in Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The Cranberry league is a “wooden bat” league.  The Cranberry League is a member of the American Amateur Baseball Congress (AABC) and competes in the "Stan Musial" Division.

Originally founded by Connie Spillane, the League currently consists of eleven teams (with the addition of Middleboro for 2008) in a geographical area that stretches from Boston in the north, Cape Cod in the south and Weymouth in the east to Wrentham in the west. The level of competition has been and continues to be extremely high. 

The Cranberry Baseball League completed its 48^th Season in 2007  This will be third Opening Day without league founder Connie Spillane, who passed away in November 2003.  Connie was the driving force behind amateur baseball in the area for over 70 years.  One of his innovations, The Brockton Invitational Tournament, has been copied by many of the tryout camps that abound throughout the summer.  The Cranberry League is a large part of his legacy.  

Each team plays a 30 game regular season schedule between Memorial Day Weekend and the Stan Musial State Tournament. 

The League regular season schedule runs from Memorial Day through mid-July.  The Top 6 teams will compete in the AABC Stan Musial Tournament State Tournament. 

2007 Winners:

• Cranberry League Champion: Weymouth Phillies

• Stan Musial Massachusetts State Champion: Braintree White Sox

• Stan Musial National Finalists: Easton Huskies
  
   

Over the years, the Cranberry League has excelled against its peers. In seventeen of the last twenty-one years, a CBL team has won the State Championship in the American Amateur Baseball Congress (Stan Musial) Tournament.  In twelve of the last fifteen years, the New England Regional Champions have all come from the Cranberry League- with the East Bridgewater Royals, Easton Huskies, Quincy Sheriffs,  Braintree White Sox and Hingham Phillies taking the “Best In New England” honors. The Huskies, White Sox and the Weymouth Elks have also won the North Atlantic Championship and have finished as high as 2nd in the World Series.  

Our All-Star Team has recently begun playing the Boston Park League All-Stars in an Annual All-Star Game at Fenway Park. The Cranberry League Won the first game by one run and The Park League won the 1999 game by one run. In 2001, the Cranberry League lost 5-4. In 2004, the CBL beat the Park league 4-3 at Fenway Park on June 30th with a late game comeback. This year we hope to even the score at Campanelli Stadium.

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