Plans are under way for the Butler BlueSox to return to Michelle Krill Field at Historic Pullman Park next summer.

Dean Selfridge, director of the ballpark, said possibilities include the BlueSox joining the Great Lakes Intercollegiate League, the Tri-State Collegiate League or be part of a new four-team circuit known as the Professional Introduction League. All of that league's games would be played at Pullman Park.

Should the PIL come to Butler, it would be in partnership with the Global Scouting Bureau, a professional baseball scouting service that has sent 2,500 former college players on to the next level since its inception in 1998.

The PIL would consist of former college players who were not drafted by Major League Baseball.

“We are weighing all of these possibilities,” Selfridge said. “I'm leaning toward this new league, as our operating costs would be much lower. Nothing has been finalized with the Pullman board yet, but I have talked to most of the board members one-on-one.

“Personally, I am 100 percent confident the BlueSox will be back next year.”

The BlueSox spent 10 years in the Prospect League, a collegiate summer circuit, before folding after the 2018 season.

The Pullman Park Board retained the naming rights to the BlueSox as part of a court settlement with the former franchise.

The “new” BlueSox would be owned by the Pullman Park Authority.

Two Tri-State Collegiate League teams — the Pittsburgh Diamond Dawgs and Butler Iron Bucks — played their home games at Pullman this summer.

The Diamond Dawgs are not returning to that league. The Iron Bucks — formerly the Core Athletics — have been in the league for five years.

“The Iron Bucks have expressed interest in returning to Pullman and we will try to accommodate them,” Selfridge said. “That would work around the BlueSox home dates.”

The four-team 16U Iron and Oil League hopes to return to Pullman as well. The West Penn Elite and Atlantic Coast Baseball play on weekends at Pullman.

“It's a great problem to have if you love baseball,” Selfridge said of finding calendar dates for all of these teams.

Sewickley resident Claudio Reilsono, a scout through the Global Scouting Bureau and head baseball coach at Carnegie Mellon University, said he would be on hand for every PIL game played, should the league be played at Pullman.

“CMU plays its home games at Pullman and I love that ballpark,” Reilsono played. “James Gamble, the owner of Global Scouting, came up with the concept of the PIL and I love it.

“This league would give former college players another shot at showing their skills and proving themselves worthy of playing baseball at the next level.”

The PIL would consist of four 20-player teams. The BlueSox would be one, an International team based out of Canada would be another. The league would form the other two rosters.

Players would pay a fee to play in the league.

The PIL would play a 48-game schedule — 24 doubleheaders — at Pullman over six-weeks.

Selfridge emphasized these possibilities are still in the preliminary stages. “I'm hopeful we'll have something firmly in place by October,” he said.