The Mexican National League was a professional baseball circuit that operated briefly in 1946. It was officially ranked as a Class B league in Organized Baseball and included six clubs that represented the cities of Mexico, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, El Paso, Saltillo, and Torreón–Gómez Palacio. But it was to be a short-lived experiment because of a strong competition from an independent Mexican League, created by a multi-millionaire Jorge Pasquel, who attempted to turn his baseball circuit into a first-rate rival to the Major Leagues, which forced the Class B regional league to fold.