1907-1927 SEMI-PRO
1928-1930 CLASS D
1931-32 CLASS D
1937-1939 CLASS D
1940-41 CLASS C
1947-1950 CLASS C
1952-54 CLASS C
1955-58 CLASS C
2003 INDEPENDENT
The ARIZONA STATE LEAGUE revival is underway! The league has appointed a president and he will be visiting former league cities to tour community ballparks and talk with local officials!
Baseball is rich in history along the U.S.-Mexican border. At the turn-of-the-century, several outlaw leagues were home to the area from El Paso, Texas heading west into eastern and central Arizona.
The Copper League established itself in the early 1910’s and survived until the mid-1920’s. Some of the 1919 Chicago White Sox players that were banished from Major League Baseball because of the betting scandal, found teams in this league to join.
The Arizona State League sprouted up as a semi-pro league recorded as early as 1907 and into the early 20’s and played alongside the Copper League. When the Copper League disbanded, the Arizona State League gained steam and in 1928, the league entered into the National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs (Minor Leagues) as an affiliated Class C professional league and the average player was an astonishing 30 years old.
The Arizona State League played for three years and beginning for the 1931 season, two clubs were added, Nogales, Sonora and El Paso, Texas, thus, the league was renamed the Arizona-Texas League. The league was active nine of those years under that name until 1955, taking breaks for the war and several economic downturns. The league was a Class D level league until it became Class C beginning the 1950 season.
In 1951, the Arizona-Texas loop merged with the Sunset League (based primarily in California but with teams in Nevada and New Mexico) to form the Southwest International League. However, the Arizona-Texas League clubs played only that one season in the new circuit before seceding and reforming the AZTXL in 1952.
In 1955, when the league lost El Paso, its lone Texas franchise, its name was formally changed to the Arizona-Mexico League.
The Arizona State League is administratively active and has a goal to begin its reincarnated season in 2024 as a townball baseball league. The league constitution states that any team in the league must be in a community that has had a team in the league in previous years.
Mr. Amland has extensive experience building and promoting sports leagues and is making the move from Minnesota to get started building teams that will compete in the league.
Mr. Amland can be reached at
(651) 503 9855.
February 13, 2024 - Announced T. K. "Kim" Karabatsos as League Vice President.
February 13, 2024 - Announced Bob Lipp as League Executive Secretary.
January 23, 2024 - Announced the passing of Tom Mosier - Bisbee Community Champion and Bisbee Copper Kings owner 2007-2011.
November 1, 2023 - Announced Rod Amland as League President.
October 15, 2023 - Announed the Arizona State League will begin operations with 12 charter memberships.
October 15, 2023 - Announced that the league name shall be the Arizona State League. The league will concentrate on the 100-year anniversary of the 1924 Arizona State League. The prior successor league names, Arizona-Texas League and Arizona-Mexico League names shall be reserved for future use.
November 12, 2022 - Announced the passing of Chuck Carr - 2003 Bisbee Copper Kings outfielder.
July 5, 2022 - Named Kate Cross - Tucson, Arizona - Community Champion.
July 1, 2022 - Named Mike Cloutier - Honorary Board member.
June 25, 2022 - Named Kim Karabatsos - Bisbee, Arizona - Community Champion.
June 25, 2022 - Announced the passing of Mike Greene - Douglas, Arizona - Community Champion.
February 25, 2022 - Named Steve Shaad - League Development Officer.
February 14, 2022 - Named Karla Tona - League Development.
January 28, 2022 - Named Mike Greene - Douglas, Arizona - Community Champion.
January 2, 2022 - Named Luis Alarcon - Nogales, Sonora - Community Champion.
December 23, 2022 - Named Isauro Rochin - Cananea, Sonora - Community Champion.
December 23, 2021 - Named Esmeralda Pal - Branding & Social Media Manager.
December 13, 2021 - Named Monique Gillmore - Nogales, Arizona Community Champion.
November 15, 2021 - Named Daftne Padilla - Cananea, Sonora - Community Champion.
November 1, 2021 - Named Carmin Alcaide - Cananea, Sonora - Community Champion.
May 17, 2021 - Named Carmin Alcaide - League Assistant.
January, 15, 2021 - Named Chatchadaphorn Sutsai - League Assistant.
February 15, 2020 - Announced the passing of Maria Figueroa Vargas - Juarez Community Champion.
February 12, 2020 - Named Albert Ambriz - Douglas/Agua Prieta - Community Champion.
February 12, 2020 - Named Jorge Quintana - League Director of Sales.
March 1, 2018 - Named Maria Figueroa Vargas - Juarez, Chihuahua - Community Champion.
July 4, 2017 - Named Kim Karabatsos - Nogales, Arizona - Community Champion.
June 5, 2017 - Announced the passing of David Skinner - Bisbee Copper Kings 2003 minority owner.
August 6, 2016 - Named Rene Morales Leon - Cananea, Sonora - Community Champion.
August 1, 2016 - Named Geovanna Morales - League Development.
April 1, 2016 - Named Bob Lipp - President.
April 1, 2016 - Filed Incorporation to become legal entity.
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