The Greater Brisbane League or formerly the Greater Brisbane Baseball Board league (GB3) is the largest baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 league

Sports league

League is a term commonly used to describe a group of sports teams or individual athletes that compete against each other in a specific sport. At its simplest, it may be a local group of amateur athletes who form teams among themselves and compete on weekends; at its most complex, it can be an...

 in the Australian state of Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

 and covers all teams from Brisbane North, South, West, Metro as well as two Gold Coast

Gold Coast, Queensland

Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...

 teams. These are from age groups Little League

Little League

Little League Baseball and Softball is a non-profit organization in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States which organizes local youth baseball and softball leagues throughout the U.S...

 (U12) through to seniors. It is run by the governing body of Baseball Queensland

Baseball Queensland

Baseball Queensland is the governing body of baseball within Queensland. Baseball Queensland is governed by the Australian Baseball Federation. It is located in Milton, Queensland and run by chief executive officer Col Dick....

.

To participate in the Greater Brisbane Major League, clubs must meet certain criteria set by Baseball Queensland. Generally the hardest criteria for clubs to meet is to field a team in the junior age levels U14's, U16's and U20's. When this criterion is not met, senior teams may only compete in the South Queensland Baseball League or Pacific League competition.

The GBL consists of six senior division teams from Major/Pacific League A and B through to South Queensland League A-C and a separate Masters competition. Juniors consist of an U20 competition, division one and two U16 and a division one and two U14 competitions. U8, U10 and U12 competitions are run by their respective regions and are non-divisional.

History

The Greater Brisbane League was originally known as the Queensland Baseball Association fixtures, which began in 1946 when six teams entered the competition playing primarily at New Farm Park, Kalinga Park, Langlands Park

Langlands Park

Langlands Park is a sporting venue in the Brisbane suburb of Coorparoo, close to Stones Corner. It is the home ground of the Easts Tigers, a rugby league team that competes in the Queensland Cup.-History:...

, Perry Park

Perry Park, Brisbane

Perry Park Stadium is a sporting ground located at Enoggera Park in the Brisbane suburb of Bowen Hills.It is known widely as the "spiritual home of association Football" in Queensland....

 and the Brisbane Exhibition Ground

Brisbane Exhibition Ground

The Brisbane Exhibition Ground , is a showground established in Brisbane during 1875 especially for Ekka . The Exhibition ground is owned and operated by the Royal National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland...

. Uniforms were made out of surplus army uniforms and teams made up of many American ex-pat soldiers from World War II and A-Grade cricketers to keep game fit during the off-season.

Format

Level	League(s)/Division(s)
1	Queensland Major Baseball League 6 clubs	Pacific Baseball League 7 clubs
2	Queensland Major Baseball League B Grade 6 clubs	Pacific Baseball League B Grade 7 clubs
3	South Queensland Baseball League A Grade 12 clubs
4	South Queensland Baseball League B Grade 7 clubs
5	South Queensland Baseball League C Grade 8 clubs
Over 35	GBL Masters 5 clubs

Teams

Clubs currently in the Greater Brisbane League are:

Division	Team	Based	Field
Southside
Gold Coast Gold Coast, Queensland Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...	Robina Braves*	Robina Robina Robina may refer to:People* Robina Courtin , Buddhist nun* Robina Higgins , athlete* Robina Muqimyar , athlete* Robina Qureshi, human rights campaigner* Robina Suwol, Children's Environmental Health & Justice Advocate...	Robina Common
	Surfers Paradise Surfers Paradise Baseball Club The Surfers Paradise Baseball Club is a baseball club based on the Gold Coast in Queensland, that participates in the Greater Brisbane League, Gold Coast and Far North Coast competitions. The club was also host of the 2008 Pan Pacific Masters Games.-History:...	Benowa	Sir Bruce Small Park Sir Bruce Small Park Sir Bruce Small Park is a sporting facility located in Benowa, a suburb of the Gold Coast, Queensland in Australia. It's baseball facilities are home to the Surfers Paradise Baseball Club, current premiers of the Greater Brisbane League...
Brisbane South	Mt Gravatt Eagles	Mackenzie Mackenzie, Queensland Mackenzie is a small suburb located in the south-east of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. This is an "out-back" suburb containing no large or small shopping centres. The area is partially covered by undeveloped bushland. Mount Petrie is located in Mackenzie....	Weedon Street
	Beenleigh Hawks Beenleigh Hawks The Beenleigh & Districts Baseball Club is a baseball club that participates in the Greater Brisbane League competition and the Brisbane South competition.-History:...	Beenleigh	T E Costigan Field
	Runcorn Indians Runcorn Indians The Indians Baseball Club is a baseball club that participates in the Greater Brisbane League competition and the Brisbane South competition. It is one of the original clubs in Australia and several clubs have been offshoots of it, including Redlands Baseball Club and the Carina Redsox.The club...	Runcorn Runcorn, Queensland Runcorn is a suburb on the south side of Brisbane, Queensland, and is about from Brisbane’s central business district. The Jagera Aboriginal people occupied most of the land south of the Brisbane River and Runcorn would have been in the territory of the Chepara clan of Eight Mile Plains, Queensland...	Dew Street
	Redlands Redlands Baseball Club The Redlands Baseball Club is a baseball club that participates in the Greater Brisbane League competition and the Brisbane South competition.-History:...	Sheldon Sheldon, Queensland Sheldon is a suburb of Redland City, Australia 23 km south-east of the Brisbane CBD.The suburb and surrounds form part of South-East Queensland's largest Koala protection zones and plays a vital part in the preservation of Queensland's Koala population....	John Murray Field John Murray Field John Murray Field is home to Redlands Baseball Club in Sheldon, about southeast of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is a fully fenced and regulation size field with field level fenced dugouts, 2 bullpens, 2 indoor battery cages with an automated pitching machine, an air-conditioned scorers box...
Brisbane West	Ipswich Musketeers Ipswich Musketeers The Ipswich Musketeers Baseball Club is a baseball club located in Tivoli, Queensland, that participates in the Greater Brisbane League competition and the Brisbane West competition...	Tivoli Tivoli, Queensland Tivoli is a suburb of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. Tivoli State School is located within the suburb.In 1932 two of the Tivoli rugby league club's players, Hector Gee and Les Heidke were selected to play for the Australian national team.-External links:*...	Church Street
	Western Districts Bulldogs	Darra Darra, Queensland Darra is a Brisbane suburb known for its high migrant population. It is one of the older suburbs and lies about 14 kilometres southwest of Brisbane. The houses are mainly of the Queenslander style built in the 1940s and 1950s. The majority of blocks in Darra are large enough to be subdivided, which...	Atthows Park
	Toowoomba Rangers Toowoomba Rangers The Toowoomba Rangers Baseball Club is a baseball club located in Toowoomba, Queensland, that participates in the Greater Brisbane League competition and the Brisbane West competition...	Toowoomba	Commonwealth Oval
	Southern Stars	Browns Plains Browns Plains Browns Plains is a suburb of Logan City, Queensland, Australia.-Description:Browns Plains is generally used as a name for both the Browns Plains suburb and the former estates which all utilise the 4118 Postcode Hillcrest, Forestdale, Regents Park and Heritage Park. Browns Plains has been identified...	Regency Park Regency Park Regency Park may refer to:* Regency Park, South Australia - a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia* Regency Park * Regency Park Estate - a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa* Regency Park...	-
Northside
Brisbane North	Narangba Demons	Narangba	Narangba Sport & Recreation Complex
	Redcliffe Padres Redcliffe Padres The Redcliffe Leagues Padres Baseball Club, also known as Peninsula Padres Baseball Club is a baseball club located in Redcliffe, Queensland that participates in the Greater Brisbane League competition and Brisbane North Region competition...	Redcliffe Redcliffe, Queensland   Redcliffe is a residential suburb of the Moreton Bay Region in the north-east of the Redcliffe peninsula, approximately north-northeast of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia...	Talobilla Park Talobilla Park Talobilla Park is a sporting facility located in the suburb of Kippa-Ring, Queensland in Australia. Sports include baseball, canoeing, dragon boating, football , rugby league and softball. Talobilla Park is also contains a Automated Weather Observing System for the Australian Bureau of Meteorology...
	Pine Rivers Rapids Pine Rivers Rapids The Pine Rivers Rapids Baseball Club is a baseball club located in Lawnton, Queensland, that participates in the Greater Brisbane League competition and the Brisbane North competition....	Bray Park	Les Hughes Sporting Complex	-
Brisbane Metro	All Stars Hendra All Stars The All Stars Baseball Club Incorporated is a baseball club located in Hendra, Queensland, Australia, that participates in the Greater Brisbane League competition and the Brisbane Metro competition...	Hendra Hendra, Queensland Hendra is a suburb of the city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It lies roughly six kilometres north-east of Brisbane central business district.- History :...	Bannister Park
	Carina Redsox Carina Redsox The Carina Redsox Baseball Club is a baseball club located in Carina, Queensland, that participates in the Greater Brisbane League competition and the Brisbane Metro competition...	Carina Carina, Queensland Carina is an eastern suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia about 7 kilometres from the Central Business District. It adjoins the suburbs of Carindale, Carina Heights, Cannon Hill and Camp Hill....	Foley Field Foley Field Foley Field is a baseball stadium in Athens, Georgia. It is the home field of the University of Georgia Bulldogs college baseball team. The stadium holds 3,291 people....
	Pine Hills Lightning Pine Hills Lightning The Pine Hills Lightning Baseball Club is a baseball club that participates in the Greater Brisbane League competition and Brisbane Metropolitan Region competition...	Bunya	James Drysdale Reserve
	Windsor Royals Windsor Royals The Windsor Royals, originally known simply as Windsor baseball club and formerly the Windsor Engineers is a baseball club that participates in the Greater Brisbane League competition and Brisbane Metro Baseball competition.-History:...	Newmarket Newmarket, Queensland Newmarket is an inner north-western suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is located approximately 5 km from the Brisbane central business district and is surrounded by the suburbs of Alderley to the north, Ashgrove to the west, Kelvin Grove to the south, and Wilston to the east...	Holloway Field Holloway Field Holloway Field is home to the baseball club, Windsor Royals in Newmarket, Queensland and is regarded as the home of baseball in Brisbane currently.-Background:...

*Robina Braves field only junior teams in the GBL.

Below is a map indicating the locations of all eighteen teams competing in the Greater Brisbane League competition. The Brisbane CBD is represented by the black square. Also note Toowoomba is located off the map to the west:

Commissioners Cup

The Commissioners Cup or Commissioners Shield is an annual, end of year event that usually coincides with the Christmas

Christmas

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 break of the season. It is a one off game in Major A, B and C grades between the current Greater Brisbane League leaders of the Northside and the Southside.

Major A standings are on win percentage, whereas Major B and C-Grade standings are on points.

Major League Criteria

The basics to qualifying for Major League criteria, clubs must have a minimum of:

• 27 senior registered players excluding U18's, in at least the Major A, B and C grades
• 60 junior registered players
• One team in each of the Baseball Queensland U14, U16 and U20 competitions; together with a minimum of one team in each of Little League, U8 and U10
• One level 1 accredited coach to each team: LL, U14, U16, U20 and all senior teams
• One accredited scorer and umpire for all junior and senior games

Media coverage

The Greater Brisbane League is covered across many media sources from Quest Community Newspapers

Quest Community Newspapers

Quest Community Newspapers is a newspaper company in Stafford, Queensland, Australia. It is owned and operated by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....

 including the Redcliffe and Bayside Herald, Caboolture Shire Herald, Albert and Logan News, Pine Rivers Press, Northern Times, and the Logan West Leader, as well as many other regional newspapers such as the Hinterland Grapevine, The Sunshine Coast Daily, Gold Coast Bulletin, Benowa Garden News, and the Mudgee Guardian.

Major League results are also covered by the television network 7 and more in depth results are covered by The Sunday Mail

The Sunday Mail (Brisbane)

The Sunday Mail is Brisbane's only Sunday newspaper. The Sunday Mail is published in tabloid format, comprising several sections that can be extracted and read separately.-Publishing:...

and the The Courier Mail.