Pacific Southwest Baseball League

The Pacific Southwest Collegiate Baseball League is a collegiate summer baseball league. The PSWL was a member of the National Baseball Congress. The PSWL League Champion represented the league annually at the National Baseball Congress World Series in Wichita, Kansas. The original league consists of 4 teams: Tucson Nationals, Casa Grande Cotton Kings, Mesa Garden of Gears and the Bisbee Copper Kings. Former teams like the Lake Havasu City Heat and the Palm Springs Power were one of the founding teams in the first season of 2000. Due to financial instability in 2011, the PSBL announced they will fold and any remaining teams will join the renamed Pacific Southwest Collegiate Baseball League for the 2012 season.

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2009 SEASON Before the start of the 2009 PSWL season, the Havasu Heat announced that they were moving to Wichita, Kansas. The Havasu Heat did not participate in 2009 in order to prepare the organization for their move to Kansas.

The PSWL consisted of 4 teams in Arizona that included college baseball players not only from Arizona, but from colleges and universities throughout the United States. The four teams included the Tucson Nationals, Casa Grande Cotton Kings, Mesa Garden of Gears and the Bisbee Copper Kings. Some games are played in Goodyear, Arizona and Green Valley, Arizona where former PSWL teams had been in the early 2000s.

The Mesa Garden of Gears won the PSWL regular season championship in 2009. The Tucson Nationals hosted the 2009 PSWL Championship Tournament at Tucson Electric Park (former home of the Arizona Diamondbacks affiliate AAA Tucson Sidewinders). The 2009 tournament championship was won by the Casa Grande Cotton Kings. By taking the championship, the Cotton Kings secured the PSWL's automatic bid in the 2009 NBC World Series in Kansas.

The 2009 season also marked the centennial for the Bisbee Copper Kings' historic Warren Ballpark, it is the oldest continuously operated ballpark in the United States and during the 2009 season the ballpark celebrated its 100th year of continuous operation. A special exhibition game was played between the Bisbee Copper Kings and the El Paso Sun Kings in honor of the two teams (Bisbee and El Paso) that played in the first game at Warren Ballpark 100 years ago.

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