Twelve years against Columbus, written down
The Central Ohio MABL won its tenth President's Cup in 2026, beating the Columbus MSBL 6-3 across games on July 26 and August 2. It has never lost a season Cup Series, and its overall record against Columbus stands at 164-71.
The year by year is published in full: 2015 tied 4-4, then 9-8, 17-13, 17-13, 19-4, 19-8 in 2021, 16-6, 17-7, 25-4 in 2024, 15-1 in 2025 and 6-3 in 2026.
The 2020 entry reads: COVID, and records that Covid won the all-star game 9-0.
A twelve-year head-to-head record between two amateur leagues in one city, published with the scores, is the best-kept rivalry in this directory.
Every season played on High Cheese is kept the same way, so a record like this accrues rather than being compiled.
Central Ohio MABL in detail
- Founded 1996, ten clubs, mid-April to early August, and a championship over Labor Day weekend.
- Scores and schedule kept together, with a weather page beside them.
- Season standings and all-time standings, kept as two separate tables.
- Home run totals by player, and cup scores going back to 2015.
- Ten clubs, a player search, a team search, and all-star places allocated by standing.
- League leaders in hitting and pitching, and a team that fails to enter stats loses its all-star places.
- The league president, by email, plus Twitter and Facebook.
- A New Player Form, and a season you can plan around before you fill it in.
- A Complexes section, and Beavers Field in Lancaster named for the all-star game.
- The playoff format is published: best-of-three in every round.
- Written by Charles McCroskey, a Hall of Famer, and credited as such.
- No album or gallery renders.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- An inter-league all-star game dating to 1998, with Columbus leading 14-13-1.
- A league president, a Hall of Fame, and division champions who manage the all-star sides.
- Four of five answered, and the season dates are the best in the directory.
- A New Player Form, and a News Archive going back years.
- Mid-April to early August, playoffs from mid-August, the final over Labor Day weekend.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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