National Association of Professional Baseball

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The National Association of Professional Baseball (NAPB; French: Association nationale de baseball professionnel, ANBP), formerly known as the Frontier League (FL; French: Ligue Frontière, LF), is a professional baseball league in North America. Founded in 1993, it is an official MLB Partner League. The league fielded 18 teams during the 2026 season, with 15 in the United States and three in Canada. Two additional clubs have announced plans to join for the 2027 season, bringing the league's proposed membership to 20 teams. The league office is based at ForeFront Field in Avon, Ohio. The Frontier League was organized during the winter of 1992–1993 to bring professional baseball to communities in West Virginia, eastern Kentucky and southeastern Ohio that were unlikely to receive affiliated professional baseball clubs. It began with eight teams in 1993 and later expanded through new franchises, relocations and the 2019 merger with the Can-Am League. Beginning in 2026, each club plays a 102...

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