Golden Baseball League Winter League has just completed its third season. In the first three years, over 130 Arizona Winter League players have been signed to professional contracts. Two of those players, Scott Richmond and Sergio Romo, are now pitching in the major leagues. The 2009 Arizona Winter League began play on January 31, 2009 and has expanded to 8 teams and almost 200 players. On April 3, 2009, the Golden Baseball League announced its second instructional league known as the Arizona Summer League, which is patterned after the AWL. This league consists of three teams, the Canada Miners, El Centro Imperials and
Baseball in the Philippines began to play the game when he was a kid. With ex-NFL quarterback Tim Tebow's transtition into baseball and since he is as of 2018 now playing for the New York Mets AA affiliate Binghamton Rumble Ponies, if called into the Mets team in the coming 2019 season he will be the first Filipino in many years to join the ranks of the major league teams. Baseball in the Philippines Baseball was introduced in the Philippines during the American colonial period. Baseball was a national pastime in the country. The sport has become a re-emerging sport in the recent years.