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Pioneer Baseball League
Baseball league in the Western United States
Pioneer Baseball League
The Pioneer Baseball League (also known as simply the Pioneer League) is a professional baseball league based in the Western United States. It operates as one of four Major League Baseball (MLB) Partner Leagues in the American independent baseball league system without MLB team affiliations. The league is contested by 12 teams from California and the Rocky Mountains region, which each play a 96-game regular season split into two halves. The top two teams in each half qualify for a postseason tournament to determine the overall league champion. The Pioneer League was established in 1939 as a Class C minor league consisting of six teams from Idaho and Utah. It later expanded to Montana as part of a failed effort in the 1950s to become a third major league rivalling the American and National leagues, complicated by competition with the Pacific Coast League. By the time it was reclassified as a Rookie league in 1964, only four teams in Idaho remained. Gradually, it returned to Montana and...
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