A pool that shows its work
You must be 35 to play. The free agent form asks for age, location, position, former team and baseball experience, and the league says to be as honest as possible for a better chance of getting called up. What it then does is unusual: it publishes the pool itself, dated, with an experience grade from one to four beside each man and — where a club has taken him — the name of the club in the last column.
Showing the claims is the part that works. A player reading it can see the pool moving, and a manager can see who is still available without asking. That is precisely what a High Cheese free agent pool does natively, and continuously, on the league's own page — every unattached player in front of every manager, with the sign-ups landing on rosters instead of a list somebody has to update by hand and repost.
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.
- 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.
- 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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