American Baseball Alliance

The  (ABO) is a American professional baseball league launched in 2017 as a competitor to. The league is headquartered in,.

History
The was founded in March 2016 by Rod Rodger, a former  star and a player formerly of 's, the EKBL's El Kadsre City Gullies, and 's  and. In the league announcement conference at his American summer house in, , he stated that he wanted to form a league that would compete with Major League Baseball but not "feel and be like a non-Minor League independent league" with major league-quality players. Since the announcement came close to April Fools Day, some fans dismissed it as a joke at first.

A test game was played on August 7, 2016 at the in,. and were secured as sponsors, and  coaches and both professional (both ex-MLB and currently in MiLB) and amateur players (mainly from high schools and colleges) were gathered from all across the  and  to volunteer for the respective first teams, the San Francisco Scorchers and the Los Angeles Enforcers. Interest was high enough for Rod to put on a second test game on September 4, 2016 at in,  with the same players and coaches.

ABO stadiums
Most of the league's stadiums are baseball-specific facilities - the three exceptions are the (which hosted baseball games in the 1970's),  (which hosted Minor League games in the 1980's and some MLB spring training games), and  (which was previously solely a college football venue). Six ABO stadiums (,, , , , and ) are current MLB stadiums while one had previously hosted MLB games. The rest of the stadiums are (usually larger) minor league parks, with being the smallest.