As a top-quality developmental league, the CPL uses wooden bats exclusively, giving our players a head start on the transition to professional baseball. Many former college players have cited a summer in a wood-bat league as a key to improved play in their final collegiate seasons and an advantage early in their pro careers. Several other cities are under consideration as future expansion sites. The CPL allows college players and coaches from the Southeast to play closer to home, while offering talented players from across the country the opportunity to experience the Carolinas' hospitality and ideal baseball weather. With inexpensive tickets, souvenirs and food, the CPL offers a great evening of top-quality baseball at a very reasonable cost.
Fans also enjoy a busy schedule of minor-league style promotions and appearances.
The CPL in the Community Local spending such as visiting team hotel rooms and restaurant meals, concessions equipment and supplies, and staff payroll gives each CPL city a total economic impact of over half a million dollars. Each team in the CPL is an active member of its community through youth baseball clinics, charity appearances and more. You Collegiate baseball players traditionally live with local families during the summer, due to NCAA rules that prohibit their teams from providing any type of compensation, including housing. Therefore, we rely on the support of the community in finding summer housing and part-time jobs for the players.