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The Amsterdam Mohawks are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Amsterdam, New York and play in the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League. After 30+ years in the New York Collegiate Baseball League, the Amsterdam Mohawks, as of 2011, are members of a newly formed league. The Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League combined some of the better summer baseball franchises in the nation and partnered them with Perfect Game USA, the world's utmost leader in scouting and reporting services. The Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League is a ten team summer league played throughout upstate New York. In addition to Amsterdam, the PGCBL consists of teams located in Albany, Boonville, Cooperstown, Elmira, Glens Falls, Little Falls, Newark, Saugerties, Utica and Watertown. The PGCBL is one of the elite wood bat summer leagues in America. To be eligible to play in the PGCBL, a player must have completed at least one year of college and must still have at least one year of playing eligibility remaining. Each team is allowed two exceptions to that rule where graduating seniors are eligible to play. The players must first be approved by Perfect Game USA. They must also be enrolled full-time at a college or university. Beginning in early June, each team in the league will play a 48 game schedule, which will wind down in early August. The Mohawks, who were located in Schenectady prior to 2003, have won the championship in 1988 under then head coach, and former team owner/president Bob Bellizzi. The first year in Amsterdam, the Mohawks captured the title in 2003 under Bill Consiglio, and again in 2004 under Nicholas Enriquez. In 2009 current head coach Keith Griffin took over and won the championship in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014. In 2002, Dave Fields, led the team to a regular season title but lost the deciding game of the championship series to the Hornell Dodgers. Again in 2005, John Thomson guided the Mohawks to a regular season crown but were eliminated in the playoffs, and in 2011 Griffin led the team to a deciding Game 3 in the Championship series but lost to the Newark Pilots. In addition, there have been over 100 former Mohawks who have signed professional baseball contracts, including San Francisco Giants star Hunter Pence (Texas-Arlington) who played for the Mohawks in 2002, Logan Darnell (University of Kentucky), Cord Phelps (Stanford), Brendan Harris (William and Mary), Glen Barker (Saint Rose College), Valentino Pascucci (University Of Oklahoma), and Tim Christman (Siena College). In 2010's Major League Draft, the Mohawks had nine players selected including four picks in the top 200. They followed that up with another 9 former players being selected in the 2011 draft and currently have 30 former players playing professional baseball. The Mohawks have grown into one of the top places to play summer baseball in America. The players will note that the game atmosphere at Shuttleworth Park is one of the best in the country and with large enthusiastic crowds and getting the kids involved, after seeing a game, you would see their point. ==League awards== Player of the Year 2014 Josh Gardiner, Radford University 2013 John Nogowski, Florida State University Pitcher of the Year 2012 Chandler Shepherd, University of Kentucky Coach of the Year 2009 Keith Griffin 2012 Keith Griffin 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amsterdam Mohawks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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