Virginia Baseball Leagues

Baseball 757 takes its name from the area code covering Hampton Roads, and its hosting account is HRNABA, which decodes as Hampton Roads NABA.

Naming a league after an area code is a specifically modern habit and a precise one. The 757 covers Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Newport News, Hampton and Chesapeake, a metropolitan area of nearly two million split across a very large body of water, and everyone who lives there knows exactly what the number means.

The site returns a 403 to us. Hampton Roads has the largest naval base in the world, which means a permanent population of people posted there for a few years at a time, and a league in that catchment is always recruiting.

Charlottesville MABL runs on a Google Sites page, which is the free option a league picks when nobody involved wants to be the webmaster and everybody agrees something has to exist.

We also carry a Charlottesville MSBL, founded 1996, with no website at all. Two Charlottesville records, one sanctioning body apart, in a city of fifty thousand. They are probably the same league under two affiliations, or one that switched.

Charlottesville is a university town where the permanent population is a fraction of the term-time one. Adult baseball there is built on the people who stay. Send us which of our two records is the live one.

Charlottesville MSBL has run since 1996 and has no website in our records, while our separate Charlottesville MABL entry points at a Google Sites page.

MSBL and MABL are the same national organisation's two brand names, senior and adult, and a great many affiliates use them interchangeably. Two records thirty years and one letter apart in a city this size is more likely to be one league than two.

We will not merge them on that reasoning alone. Thirty years is worth recording accurately, and one message from anyone playing in Charlottesville settles it.

The Federal Baseball League is based in Alexandria, and the address in our records points at a fields page that returns a 404. The site exists; that particular page does not.

That is a smaller failure than most in this directory and an annoying one, because a fields page is exactly what somebody deciding whether to join wants. Whoever restructured the site left our link pointing at a page that has moved.

This is the third Federal League in our records, after Minnesota's 35+ operation and a semi-pro outfit in south Florida. The name has no shared lineage; it is simply what leagues in and around Washington have always liked calling themselves, after the Federal League that briefly challenged the majors in 1914.

The Industrial Baseball League of Northern Virginia carries the oldest kind of name in American amateur sport. Industrial leagues were company leagues, where a factory or a utility fielded a team and the players were its employees, and they were the backbone of adult baseball for the first half of the twentieth century.

Northern Virginia has very little industry and a great deal of government contracting, so whatever this league is now, it is not that. Keeping the name is a choice, and a good one: it connects a league in Arlington to a tradition that produced most of the amateur baseball this country ever played.

We could not extract the divisions or season from the page. Send them and the entry can say more than the history of its own title.

Mountain Valley Adult Baseball is the third of our three Roanoke listings, on a Facebook page whose handle identifies it as a NABA affiliate.

That detail is the one that might make it genuinely distinct from the other two. NABA and MSBL run separate national structures, and a NABA league in Roanoke could coexist with a Star City operation without either being a duplicate of the other.

Roanoke sits in a bowl surrounded by the Blue Ridge and the Alleghenies, and the mountains in this league's name are not decorative. We cannot read the page. Three listings, one city, and no divisions we can quote from any of them.

NABA Richmond runs on a hosted teams page that refuses non-browser requests.

Richmond has two listings in our records, this and the Virginia Baseball Congress, a six-team 25+ league in central Virginia. One NABA affiliate and one independent competition is a sensible pairing for a city that size.

Richmond's baseball history includes the Virginia League, the Colts, and a long minor league lineage now carried by the Flying Squirrels, whose name is the best in professional baseball and whose ballpark sits on the Boulevard. Send us the divisions and the fee.

Shenandoah Valley MSBL was founded in 2024 out of Harrisonburg, on a .info domain, which is an unusual choice and probably a cheap one.

The Shenandoah Valley runs a hundred and fifty miles between two mountain ranges, and the towns in it are strung along I-81 with nothing much either side. A valley league there is the only realistic option for a great many people: the nearest alternatives are over the Blue Ridge to Charlottesville or a long way north toward Winchester.

Two years old. James Madison University is in Harrisonburg, which gives the league fields and a supply of recent players. If you are in the valley, this is the new thing.

Southern Virginia ABL was founded in 2023 and its listed address is the Star City Adult Baseball League's Facebook page, which our records also carry as a separate entry.

Two names, one page, one city. This is the eleventh duplicate pair in this directory and among the clearest: not similar names on different platforms, but two records pointing at the same URL.

The most likely reading is that the league renamed itself, or that a 2023 founding under one name has since been marketed under another. Southern Virginia is a broader catchment than Star City, so if anything the change was outward. We are keeping both until somebody tells us otherwise.

The Star City Adult Baseball League is in Roanoke, on a Facebook page, and Star City is Roanoke's nickname, taken from the illuminated star on Mill Mountain that has overlooked the city since 1949.

Our records also hold a Southern Virginia ABL, founded 2023, pointing at the same Facebook page, and a Mountain Valley Adult Baseball, also Roanoke, on a NABA-branded page. Three Roanoke listings, at least two of them sharing an address.

Roanoke is a city of a hundred thousand in the mountains of southwest Virginia, and it does not need three separate adult baseball leagues. It probably does not have three. Somebody there could reduce our records to the truth in one sentence.

The Virginia Baseball Congress is a 25+ league in central Virginia with six teams: the Athletics, Diamondbacks, Indians, Mets, Red Sox and Senators.

Naming a team the Senators in a state whose northern end is a Washington suburb is either a nod to the two major league clubs that carried the name and both left town, or a joke about proximity to the Capitol. Both readings work.

The league keeps standings and results back to 2021 and publishes batting and pitching leaders, which for a six-team amateur competition is more record-keeping than most manage. Rosters for 2026 go in through a form on the site.