February 4, 1990
The St. Petersburg Pelicans defeat the West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 in the first ever Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship.
The league started in the winter of 1989/1990 with 8 teams playing a 72 game schedule. Four of the original eight teams folded after one season. The league would fold completely midway through its second season in December 1990.
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Eric Bynum is Managing Editor here at Baseball de World and an ESL teacher in South Korea. He has played and/or written about baseball for the past 30 years and is an avid Atlanta Braves fan. Eric also writes for Braves Baseball World and for Call to the Pen.
