Coocoostan Pro Baseball
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Coocoostan Pro Baseball is a 12 team professional baseball league located in The East Pacific nation of Coocoostan. The league was founded in 2007, after an upsurge in baseball's popularity ensured that a fully professional league was inevitable. The CPB is a corporation, which negotiated a split with the Coocoostan Baseball Congress, which allowed players from it's Premier League to play in the CPB and for. In exchange, the CPB agreed to allow Kalibad and Summikalad, two smaller cities with strong roots in baseball to enter the league. The league also avoided the inevitable moving of the smallest market teams by allowing their rosters to play as a CPB team in another city, while maintaining the old details of the franchise and enter the new AAA league. As well, exhibition games are held in the smaller cities before the start of the year.
Schedule
Teams play each team in their league 10 times, with one three and one two game series at each stadium. Teams play inter league matches in the middle of the season and play one two game set at each stadium.
Teams
| Division | Team | City/Area | Stadium(Capacity) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific League | Aubrey BaySox | Aubrey, Aubrey Federal City | SLC Bank Stadium(39,000) |
| Las Venturas Roughriders | Las Venturas, Las Venturas Oblast | Four Dragons Stadium(25,000) | |
| Los Santos Stars | Los Santos, Los Santos Oblast | County Stadium(67,544) | |
| Panjuhr Thunder | Panjuhr, Panjuhr Oblast | Panjuhr Dome | |
| Summikalad Storm | Summikalad, Ulgava Oblast | Apex Diamond(17,000) | |
| Wajax Jaxx | Wajax, Capital Oblast | Tenkos Field(33,000) | |
| Central League | Anadahl Aeros | Anadahl, Anadahl Oblast | Hagans Field(42,050) |
| Coocoobad Senators | Coocoobad Federal City | National Stadium(62,382) | |
| Kalibad Pelicans | Kalibad, Kalibad Oblast | Lakeshore Park(18,264) | |
| San Fierro Suns | San Fierro, San Fierro Oblast | Xoomer Field(52,416) | |
| Starlight City Wranglers | Starlight City,Starlight Oblast | Ventura Field(33,000) | |
| Ulgava Rockhounds | Ulgava, Ulgava Oblast | Coocoostan Telekom Field(74,483) |
Differences between CPB and CBC Premier League
Players
- CPB Players are paid salary and reimbursed for moving expenses,CBC Players were paid hourly and considered semi-professional
- CPB Players are on average older, as the CBC players had off-season jobs and usually quit baseball to seek full-time employment
- CPB Stadiums are larger, with only one being smaller than the largest CBC stadium
Rules
- CPB Games will be 9 innings long, while CBC games were 7
- CPB uses wooden bats, while CBC bats were metal, usually aluminum
- CPB uses baserunning rules that allow players to "railroad" the catcher on plays at home plate, by crashing into him to attempt to knock the ball loose, while CBC rules expressly forbade this.
- CPB Rosters are larger, with more pitchers and only two bench players.
- CPB plays a 74 game season, while CBC played 42
