The most complete rulebook here
A maximum of five runs per half inning except the last, which the home plate umpire declares when thirty minutes remain and which plays open. Seven innings in the regular season, nine in the playoffs. Wood bats only. Every present player bats, in an order kept consistent all season. A pitcher throws a maximum of four innings or twelve outs, and comes out if he hits three batters. A ball that bounces over the boundary is an automatic double. Ties go to a runner on second with one out, and a game still tied is one point each. Fewer than eight players is a forfeit, though captains may play it anyway with the score and the stats not counting. Every man in the batting order must be registered, without exception, because the league's insurance says so.
That last rule is the one that costs leagues money when it slips, and it is exactly what a High Cheese roster does automatically — a registered, signed, insurable list a captain can check on his phone at the plate meeting instead of hoping.
Edmonton Baseball League in detail
- Sandlot baseball in Alberta: inclusive by design, semi-competitive by choice, five seasons old.
- A live season calendar on the front page, and a 2025 schedule kept in the archive.
- A live table of GP, W, L, RF, RA and PCT — loaded by script, invisible to a plain reader.
- Results feed the live standings, but no game score renders.
- Twelve to fifteen players a side, balanced by the league, and no team is named.
- A top-ten board of AVG, OPS, HR and RBI, plus a full 2025 batting archive.
- [email protected] for questions and the waitlist; e-transfers to [email protected].
- $375 by e-transfer, $386.56 by card, 18 and over, and closed for 2026 with a waitlist.
- Quality baseball facilities around Edmonton, none of them named.
- No news or announcements are published.
- No album or gallery.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- September playoffs, nine innings, included in the season fee.
- Started 2021 under the Edmonton Sandlot Baseball Society; renamed in 2024.
- Organizers are referred to; nobody is named.
- All five answered, plus refunds, cleats, jerseys and what happens if you miss a week.
- Liability, code of conduct and medical release waivers, all signed at registration.
- May through September, one game a week, playoffs in September.
- $26 for two jerseys and a hat; everything else you bring yourself.
- Two umpires at every game, and the plate umpire keeps the official score.