The 2004 FCSL season was the inaugural season of the Florida Collegiate Summer League

Florida Collegiate Summer League

The Florida Collegiate Summer League is a six-team wood bat collegiate summer baseball league located in the central Florida region of the southeastern United States. The league was founded in the fall of 2003 and began play in the summer of 2004...

, a collegiate summer baseball league operating in the southeastern United States

United States

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 region of central Florida

Florida

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. The league contained four franchises during its inaugural season, the Daytona Beach Barracudas, Orlando Shockers, Sanford River Rats

Sanford River Rats

The Sanford River Rats are a wood bat collegiate summer baseball league team located in Sanford, Florida. The team is a member of the Florida Collegiate Summer League and plays its home games at Historic Sanford Memorial Stadium. The team is an inaugural member of the FCSL.-History:The River...

, and Winter Park Diamond Dawgs

Winter Park Diamond Dawgs

The Winter Park Diamond Dawgs are a wood bat collegiate summer baseball league team located in Winter Park, Florida. The team is a member of the Florida Collegiate Summer League and plays its home games at Alfond Stadium...

.

The Sanford River Rats won the league championship game after a double elimination playoff series to become the league's inaugural champions.

Regular Season Order of Finish

Rnk	Team	Manager
1	Sanford River Rats Sanford River Rats The Sanford River Rats are a wood bat collegiate summer baseball league team located in Sanford, Florida. The team is a member of the Florida Collegiate Summer League and plays its home games at Historic Sanford Memorial Stadium. The team is an inaugural member of the FCSL.-History:The River...	Ricky Plante
2	Daytona Beach Barracudas	Pat Leach Pat Leach Patrick James Handley "Pat" Leach is a rugby union player for Newport RFC and the Newport Gwent Dragons regional team. He usually plays at centre, but he has also played at fullback. Born in St Asaph, Flintshire, Leach began his career with Colwyn Bay RFC and joined Orrell RUFC after leaving school...
3	Orlando Shockers	Chad Sommers
4	Winter Park Diamond Dawgs Winter Park Diamond Dawgs The Winter Park Diamond Dawgs are a wood bat collegiate summer baseball league team located in Winter Park, Florida. The team is a member of the Florida Collegiate Summer League and plays its home games at Alfond Stadium...	Rob Sitz

All-Star game

The 2004 FCSL All-Star Day occurred on July 4 at Sanford's Memorial Stadium

Historic Sanford Memorial Stadium

Historic Sanford Memorial Stadium is a baseball stadium located in Sanford, Florida. The ballpark is located just south of Lake Monroe on Mellonville Avenue, less than a mile from Historic Downtown Sanford. The stadium stands at the site of the old Sanford Field, which was originally built in 1926...

and consisted of a home run derby and all-star game between the Northern Division's Sanford River Rats and Daytona Beach Barracudas and the Southern Division's Orlando Shockers and Winter Park Diamond Dawgs. Orlando's Ron Baptiste won the Home Run Derby, and he and his Southern Division teammates won the All-Star Game 9-0. The All-Star Game MVP was awarded to Orlando's J.P. Castro.

Playoffs

• Day 1- Daytona 4 (1-0), Orlando 2 (0-1); Sanford 4 (1-0), Winter Park 0 (0-1)
• Day 2- Winter Park 1 (1-1), Orlando 0 (0-2)-Orlando eliminated; Sanford 5 (2-0), Daytona 3 (1-1); Daytona 10 (2-1), Winter Park 5 (1-2)-Winter Park eliminated
• Day 3- Sanford 10, Daytona 0- Sanford wins FCSL championship

External links

• FCSL website