So as I stated 2000 will be the next year date for release, here are the new leagues added since the 1982 release.
#D - Denotes which level on European Pyramid
If no listing in ()'s, then it is labeled an international league
Pyramids created: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia
Here are the leagues added since the last version, in 1982:
- 1. A HBL (Croatia)
- 1. Liga Slovensky (Slovakia - 2D)
- 2 Division Baseball (Belgium - 2D)
- 2. Baseball-Bundesliga (Germany - 2D)
- 3 Division Baseball (Belgium - 3D)
- 3. Baseball-Bundesliga (Germany - 3D)
- Austrian Baseball Bundesliga (2D)
- Balkan Premier League (League consisting of teams from Bosnia, Kosovo, and North Macedonia)
- Baseball League Austria
- Baseball-Landesliga (Germany - 4D)
- Belarus Baseball Association
- British Single-A (4D)
- Bulgarian Baseball Championship
- Campionatul National de Baseball (Romania)
- Czech Baseball Extraliga
- Czech 1. Liga (2D)
- Drzavno Prvenstvo (Slovenia)
- Eesti Meistrivostlused (Estonia)
- French Nationale 1 (3D)
- French Nationale 2 (4D)
- Ghana Baseball Association
- Honkbal Vierde Klasse (4D)
- Hungarian National Baseball League
- I Liga (Poland - 2D)
- Israel Premier League
- Korean Futures League (KPB - R)
- India Rookie League (IPL - R)
- Lanka Premier League (Sri Lanka)
- Lietuovs Beisbolo Lyga (Lithuania)
- Malta National League
- Moldovan Club Championship League
- Nigerian Baseball Organization
- Norges Baseball Liga (Norway)
- Pakistan Super League
- Russian Baseball Championship
- Scottish National League
- SM-Sarja (Finland - 2D)
- South African Premiership
- Swedish Andraserien (2D)
- Taiwan Major League (ML)
- Ugandan Baseball Association
- Ukraine Championship Baseball
- Zimbabwe Premier League
- United Baseball League (a 2nd ML in North America)
- *Central Baseball League (UBL - AAA)
- *Southwest League (UBL - AA)
- *Western Baseball League (UBL - A)
Development/Draft/Collegiate Leagues added:
- Appalachian League (as it has been since 2021, frosh/sophs in college)
- Arizona Fall League (for UBL and CL)
- Caribbean League (will touch on this later)
- Florida Instructional League (for UBL and CL)
- Hawaii Winter Baseball (UBL, CL, JPBO, KPB)
The list of international tournaments added since 1982:
- Premier 12 (x4 - best-on-best featuring the Top 12 in the world)
- Asian Baseball Cup (for the lower tier Asian countries)
- Asian Games (x4 - similar to the PanAm Games in Asia)
- European Super 6 (x2) - best-on-best featuring the "Super Six" of Europe: Netherlands, Italy, England, Germany, France, Spain
- Micronesian Games (x4 - featuring countries from the Pacific Islands)
- Nordic Baseball Tournament - (annual best-on-best tournament featuring Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden)
- Presidents Cup (x4 - teritary level tournament for smaller countries)
- U-16 World Cup (x2 - Under 16 years of age)
- U-18 Asian Baseball Championship
Other notes....
As usual, the Continental League has had some relocations, much like the JPBO. Some leagues have had expansion, or just an additional level added to the bottom of the pyramid.
The
Czechoslovak Baseball Federation has become the
Slovak Baseball Federation. The teams in the Czech Republic from the CBF joined
Czech Baseball Extraliga, also known as the CBE.
Another league featured a migration or split, as the fall of the cold war led to
Germany exploding, adding a pyramid with not just one level, but three!
Yugoslavia sees its teams go to the
Balkin Baseball League and the
Croatian Baseball League.
Like the SBF, another league also changed its name: the third division of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Eerste Klasse, which means first class, has been a name of a league since baseball began in the Netherlands in 1922. However, the name has been retired. Honkbal has decides to go with calling each league "third" and "fourth" class,
respectively, in Dutch. This means the third division level is now called
Honkbal Derde Klasse.