Forty years, in one table
The league published a single champion from 1986 to 1999 — Chaska Diamonds three times in the eighties, Minnetonka Millers, Prior Lake Pirates twice, Hastings Bierstubs, Crosstown Traffic twice, Cottage Grove, the St. Paul JTs and the Northfield Millers. From 2000 it names a AAA champion, adds AA in 2009, A in 2010 and B in 2014. Minnetonka Saints and Loretto Sox took the 2000s; Elko Chuggers and Lakeville Lobos the 2010s; the Minnoka Grays have won AAA three years running through 2025.
It also keeps its people. A Hall of Fame has inducted a class a year since 2017, named at a ballpark each time — Chaska Athletic Park in 2025, Memorial Park in Dundas in 2024, Castle Field in Anoka in 2023, Bonin Field at St Patrick in 2021 — with the earlier classes listed beside the clubs the men played for. The Ron Cottone Award has gone to Ron Cottone and Jim Manning in 2022, Larry Gessler in 2023, Lars Larson in 2025 and Wade Peterson in 2026.
No other league in this directory publishes forty consecutive champions, a hall of fame and a named award. All of it currently lives on a hosted platform under somebody else's domain — every season played on High Cheese keeps itself as standings, box scores and rosters together on the league's own page, so the fortieth year and the first are held by the same people.
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.
- A Front Office page that says: Title. Click here to edit me.
- Who, when, how many games and how to get in are answered. The fee is not.
- 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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