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ABOUT THE OLD NORTH STATE LEAGUE
The Old North State League started on a phone call.
In late summer of 2018, Alec Allred was driving home to North Carolina from his team in Michigan, ten hours of highway ahead of him. A professional ballplayer working his way through independent minor league baseball, he called his dad, Reggie, an entrepreneur and his biggest supporter, mostly to pass the time. By the time Alec crossed the state line, a casual conversation had turned into a plan.
That plan became the Old North State League: 22 teams across North Carolina, 800 players every summer, and one of the largest summer collegiate baseball leagues in the country. It also became something bigger. The idea the Allreds kept coming back to on that drive was that summer college baseball was scattered — dozens of independent leagues, no shared standards, no shared voice for the players in them.
In March of 2023, the ONSL signed on as the first Partner League of The Players League, the "league of leagues." TPL now unites six summer collegiate leagues across six states under one organization, built on a simple idea borrowed from the 1890 Players League: the player comes first.
