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| - The Continental League of Professional Baseball Clubs (known as the Continental League or CL) was a proposed third major league for baseball in the United States and Canada, announced in 1959 and scheduled to begin play in the 1961 season. Unlike predecessor competitors such as the Players League and the Federal League, it sought membership within organized baseball's existing organization and acceptance within Major League Baseball. The league disbanded in August 1960 without playing a single game, but it helped to accelerate the expansion of Major League Baseball.
- Continental League Baseball is divided into two leagues, the American League, currently with sixteen teams, and the National League, currently with fourteen teams. Each league is further subdivided into three divisions, labeled East, Central, and West. The uneven balance of teams prevents the need for interleague games (which two fifteen team leagues would have), except for certain designated times of the year. Though historically separate leagues, distinction has all but disappeared over time. In 1903, the two leagues began to meet in an end-of-year championship series called the World Series. The two leagues remained distinct, in as far as playing schedule, except for the annual All-Star Game and the World Series, until 2008 when regular season Interleague play began. In 2000, the Ameri
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| - Continental League Baseball is divided into two leagues, the American League, currently with sixteen teams, and the National League, currently with fourteen teams. Each league is further subdivided into three divisions, labeled East, Central, and West. The uneven balance of teams prevents the need for interleague games (which two fifteen team leagues would have), except for certain designated times of the year. Though historically separate leagues, distinction has all but disappeared over time. In 1903, the two leagues began to meet in an end-of-year championship series called the World Series. The two leagues remained distinct, in as far as playing schedule, except for the annual All-Star Game and the World Series, until 2008 when regular season Interleague play began. In 2000, the American and National Leagues were dissolved as legal entities, and Major League Baseball became a singular league de jure, though it had operated as a de facto single entity for many years.
- The Continental League of Professional Baseball Clubs (known as the Continental League or CL) was a proposed third major league for baseball in the United States and Canada, announced in 1959 and scheduled to begin play in the 1961 season. Unlike predecessor competitors such as the Players League and the Federal League, it sought membership within organized baseball's existing organization and acceptance within Major League Baseball. The league disbanded in August 1960 without playing a single game, but it helped to accelerate the expansion of Major League Baseball. The Continental League was the last serious attempt to create a third major league consisting of new clubs.
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