Perfect Game CrossChecker pursues the nation’s summer college leagues more extensively than anyone, and we’ll be providing comprehensive coverage over the next several weeks as we recap the 2011 season, which ended Friday.

We will identify the top professional prospects that played in some 25 of the nation’s leading summer college leagues. Through personal observation, contact with scouts and input from league managers, we’ll focus on those players who have the greatest chance to succeed at the next level—and beyond.

Before we start that coverage, though, we will unveil our final weekly ranking of the nation’s top 50 summer-league clubs, along with a story on the No. 1-ranked team.

On Tuesday, we will identify our summer-league player of the year, along with our first summer-league All-America team.

On Wednesday, PG CrossChecker’s Kendall Rogers will take a look at the top 20 prospects that played for Team USA’s college national team this summer, with scouting profiles on each.

All that will serve as an appetizer to our summer-league top prospect reports, which will begin on Thursday and continue well into September.

The depth of prospect information provided will vary according to the relative strength of each league, and to a lesser degree the number of teams in the league. In the Cape Cod League alone, we’ll rank the top 100 prospects. In all, we’ll identify more than 750 prospects.

We’ll provide information on each league in two stages. Initially, we’ll provide a raw list (and relevant biographical information) on the top prospects in each league (LIST on schedule listed below). Then we’ll follow with mini-scouting reports (REPORT on schedule listed below) on each ranked player. The number of players we’ve ranked in each league is noted.

In addition, each league will be given a 'star' ranking based on the strength of talent.  Here is the breakdown for those rankings:

**** Elite high-end talent, depth