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|sport = Baseball
|founded = 2015
|folded = 2015
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|teams = 4
|country = {{USA}}
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| champion = [[Newburgh Newts]]
|website = [http://www.northcountrybaseballleague.com/ Official site]
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The '''North Country Baseball League'''
The league was originally proposed as the '''East Coast Baseball League''' and had six teams, four in the United States and two in [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]. Right before the season started, the Watertown team pulled out over what they claimed were unfulfilled promised by the ECBL management. The other U.S.
The NCBL had an unofficial affiliation with the [[Atlantic League of Professional Baseball]], and several NCBL players were called up to the Atlantic League. The [[Newburgh Newts]] won the initial league championship series.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/sports/pro-baseball-watertown-bucks-swept-by-newburgh-newts-in-ncbl-championship-series-20150809|title=Pro baseball: Watertown Bucks swept by Newburgh Newts in NCBL championship series|date=August 9, 2015|work=Watertown Daily Times}}</ref>
Three of the four teams that took part in the NCBL's lone season moved to the [[Empire Professional Baseball League]] for 2016.
==Teams==
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!Team
!City
!Stadium
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|'''[[Newburgh Newts]]'''
| [[Traveling team]]*
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|'''[[Old Orchard Beach Surge]]'''
| [[
| [[The Ballpark (Old Orchard Beach)|The Ball Park]]
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|'''[[Road City Explorers]]'''
| [[Traveling team]]**
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|-
|'''[[Watertown Bucks]]'''
| [[Watertown (city), New York|Watertown]], [[New York (state)|New York]]
|[[
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(*) Originally started as the Newburgh Newts, based at [[Delano-Hitch Stadium]] in [[Newburgh, New York]], but the team left after three weeks due to lack of sponsorship or fan interest (brought on by poor scheduling).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/sports/pro-baseball-for-road-city-and-newburgh-everywhere-is-home-20150721|title=Pro baseball: For Road City and Newburgh, everywhere is 'home'|work=Watertown Daily Times|first=Chris|last=Fitz Gerald|date=July 21, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.recordonline.com/article/20150725/SPORTS/150729579|title=Newts' three-week run in Newburgh lacked financing and foresight|first=Josh|last=Bakan|work=[[Times Herald-Record]]|date=July 25, 2015}}</ref> When league ownership had been informed that the check for the first months rent (paid by the ECBL) had in fact bounced, they choose to leave Newburgh.
(**) Operations based in Watertown, New York. The Explorers were in negotiations to play a limited home stand at [[Point Stadium]] in [[Johnstown, Pennsylvania]], but the collapse of the ECBL halted the negotiations between the two. Moved to Rome, New York for 2016 season.<ref>{{cite web|title=Road City Explorers looking to make a POINT!|url=http://ecbl.stage.baseballshift.com/news/road-city-explorers-looking-to|website=East Coast Baseball League|accessdate=March 12, 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429120556/http://ecbl.stage.baseballshift.com/news/road-city-explorers-looking-to|archivedate=April 29, 2015}}</ref>
===Originally proposed ECBL teams===
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| [[Welland|Welland, Ontario]]
|[[Welland Stadium]]
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|'''Waterloo Whiskey Jacks'''
| [[Waterloo, Ontario
| Bechtel Park Stadium
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*[http://www.northcountrybaseballleague.com/ Official Website]
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