Four of five
Who can play: 35 and over. How much baseball: eighteen to twenty regular season games a summer, then a state tournament split into classes. Where: fifty-odd fields across the Twin Cities metro and out to St. Cloud, Northfield and Red Wing. How to join: a free agent form if you are one player, a franchise application if you have a team.
What it costs is nowhere, though the franchise criteria mention paying league dues on time. A claimed league on High Cheese answers all five on the same page as the standings and the schedule, which is where a 35-year-old deciding whether his knees are up to it is already looking.
Federal League Minnesota Baseball in detail
- 35 and over, four divisions, four classes of state championship, and forty years of it.
- Saturdays and Sundays across the metro, with the division printed under every club.
- Games, wins, losses, ties, percentage, for, against, games behind and streak — all headers, no rows.
- Finals on the front page: Minnoka 4 Mammoth 1, Angels 12 South Metro 0.
- Four divisions of townball names, and a Teams page that renders nothing.
- A stats history, all-time single season leaders and all-time career leaders — three pages, none readable.
- 4326 West Broadway Ave, Robbinsdale, and (612) 770-8357.
- A public free agent board, graded one to four, with the clubs that claimed each man written beside him.
- Fifty-odd ballparks with street addresses, from Killebrew Field to the Field of Dreams.
- 2026 rules and bylaws, plus the minutes of three league meetings.
- Twenty-five years of newspaper clippings, from a title three-peat to a man playing on with ALS.
- A photos section with albums, and a hall of fame that photographs its inductees.
- None listed, though a bat company once won the AA title.
- A highly competitive postseason split into classes, and a World Series title behind it.
- Chaska in 1986, Minnoka in 2025, and every champion in between.
- A Front Office page that says: Title. Click here to edit me.
- Rules and bylaws, three sets of meeting minutes, and two application forms.
- Eighteen to twenty games a summer, weekends, finishing in an August state tournament.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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