A clippings file, kept properly
The press page collects coverage of the league, its clubs and its players: a title three-peat for Minnoka in the Anoka County Union Herald, WCCO on Lakeville players at the Field of Dreams, the Minnoka Grays winning the MSBL/MABL World Series, a Twins bullpen catcher in Twins Daily, Granite City Sports on the 35-and-over state championship, three decades of St John's Prep alumni reuniting on a ballfield, Ron Cottone honoured with a day in Richfield, and a 2008 Pioneer Press piece on Jim Bickel still swinging away against ALS. It also lists the clubs' X handles and asks that additions go to Lars Larson.
Almost nothing in this directory keeps a press archive at all, let alone one going back to 2008. A league on High Cheese gets a wire on its own page where finals post themselves and the coverage sits with the season it belongs to, rather than as a list of links that will outlive the sites they point at.
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.
- 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.
- 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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