Two books, not one
The league publishes league rules and a code of conduct as separate documents, alongside newsletters and an umpire evaluation form.
Keeping conduct apart from the playing rules is a decision made by an organization that has had to enforce it. It is not the sort of thing a two-year-old league writes down.
What both documents share is that they live as files rather than as pages: a manager reads them once in February and then relies on memory in July. High Cheese keeps a league's rules beside its schedule, where the argument is actually happening.
Arizona MSBL/MABL in detail
- Five age divisions from 18 up, run out of Phoenix with a managers meeting at Tempe Diablo Stadium.
- The schedule lives in a separate product called Proscorebook.
- No standings are published on the league's own site.
- No results are published.
- There is a roster form. There are no published rosters.
- No statistics are published.
- The contact page carries no contact details at all.
- Manager registration, a roster form and a payment link for Summer League 2026. No price published.
- No ballparks are named, though the managers meet at Tempe Diablo Stadium.
- Newsletters are published, and the front page carries a managers meeting notice.
- There is a photo gallery, which puts this league ahead of nearly every other in the directory.
- Four equipment partners named: Smacker Bats, Dinger Bats, Nokona, Arizona Batting Club.
- No tournament or postseason is published.
- There is a Hall of Fame, and a copyright line reading 2023.
- Managers register and are named nowhere. No officers are published.
- Who can play is answered five ways. Nothing else is.
- A roster form, a manager application, an umpire evaluation, a rulebook, a code of conduct and a lost and found.
- One date is published: the Annual Managers Meeting, February 1 at Tempe Diablo Stadium.
- No store, but four bat and glove partners and a business directory.
- There is an umpire evaluation form, which means crews here are reviewed.
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