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The '''North Country Baseball League''' was an [[Independent baseball league|independent]], professional [[baseball]] league located in the Northeastern region of the United States. Operating in cities not served by [[Major League Baseball]] or their minor-league affiliates, the NCBL had four franchise teams spread throughout the states of [[New York (state)|New York]] and [[Maine]]. One of the teams, the New Hampshire Wild, is a [[traveling team]], playing all of its games at one of the other three teams.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.northcountrybaseballleague.com/schedule.html|title=NCBL Schedule|accessdate=May 28, 2015}}</ref>
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. based teams also pulled out and with Watertown reformed the
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 web|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
==Teams==
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