Classic Fields invite competitive play, BSL is a wooden bat league with NCAA, NAIA, and Junior College Coaches. The players come from all over our great nation for the opportunity to improve their skills and log additional games under their belt.

Beginning in the Spring of 2004, League Founders and a handful of interested Coaches, Administrators, and support volunteers began this program with 4 representative teams. Quickly, the following year, the BSL grew to 6 fully complemented teams, followed with 10 the following year and rounding out at 11 teams last year. Indeed, last year the BSL had a full complement of 214 collegiate ballplayers representing 49 out of our great 50 States. All participants/players represented NCAA Div I, II, III, NAIA, Community Colleges, Junior Colleges and a few select major university Club Teams. The rapid ascendancy of the BSL (Boise Summer League) into a nationally recognized Tier II Collegiate Summer Program had its roots firmly established.

In order to capitalize/improve the ongoing Leagues philosophy on supporting the developmental aspects of competitive collegiate ballplayers and their aspiring needs, the BSL instituted a series of feedback questionnaires from Coaches/Administrators/Players. Along with well recommended feedback from a myriad of University/College Coaches, it became readily apparent that the BSL can serve a vitally necessary function in providing ongoing collegiate baseball developmental necessities. The BSL therefore instituted a "trial" program last year wherein Event Calendar activities were offered. These activities have now been fully integrated and will be made part of the BSL. It requires that our well staffed collegiate Coaches are readily available not only for games played in the late afternoon/early evening, but also for the requisite Event Calendar activities.

Event Calendar activities are modeled after Major League Constructional aspects, in short, a professional instructional league format. Therefore, in addition to the usual and customary competitively placed baseball games, consisting of well over 30 games played within the scope of our League's time frame, event calendar activities consist of speed training, position specific practices, offensive video analysis, open batting practice, weight training sequences and other future activities. These are non-mandatory, voluntary activities. In short, a ballplayer can avail himself to as many developmental functions as his enthusiasm allows.

This season, largely due to housing constraints, as well as understood national economic considerations, our League Administrators in concert with their advisors have agreed to limit participation to six teams. This allows our League the opportunity to concentrate on incorporating our Event Calendar format, as well as providing committed Coaches, Umpires, facilities (which includes a multi-million dollar recreational facitlity), featured internet broadcast capabilities, as well as our ever popular concession stand capabilities. We anticipate going to 8 teams next year, with an eye toward further development.

Other noteworthy improvements to the BSL format include the utilization of a "draft" scenario. This necessary improvement will disallow perceived "stacking" of teams, wherein past perceived alleged self serving personnel will be prohibited from gaining any unfair advantage to the talent pool. Past "organized" teams as well will be discouraged for principally the same reason.

Our emphasis will be on the continued developmental needs of our national pool of baseball players who are serious about their future development. The BSL, therefore, remains committed to its original philosophy of providing excellent activity advantages, complemented by the ever mindful necessity to play under competitive situations.

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