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Ligue de Baseball Junior Élite du Québec

Quebec Amateur Baseball League

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ6546846 ↗
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The Quebec Junior Elite Baseball League (QJEBL; French: Ligue de baseball junior élite Québec, LBJEQ) is the top-level amateur summer baseball league in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is composed entirely of junior elite players - the best baseball players in the province between 16 and 21 years of age.

History

The league began as the Ligue de Baseball Royale junior, founded in 1948 by Gérard Thibault. In 1995 the league, now known as the Ligue de baseball Montréal Junior Élite merged with the eastern Quebec based Ligue Junior Majeure du Québec. Two years later the league assumed its current name.

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The public source identifies “Ligue de Baseball Junior Élite du Québec” as quebec Amateur Baseball League. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ligue, Baseball and Junior.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948, 1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1948. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ligue, Baseball and Junior providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6546846. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1948 and 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ligue de Baseball Junior Élite du Québec” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.