Seven questions, including the one everybody wants to ask
Who can play: 21 and over with no collegiate eligibility left and no professional contract, with actual players ranging from 21 to 60 and experience from high school to Minor League Baseball. How fast is it: starters average mid-80s, outliers reach 90-plus, and the league record is 98. What you do: register online and try out on June 13 at Meador Park for $20. How teams form: a 13 to 15 round draft, announced on a livestream. How long: about seven weeks of regular season pending weather, August to October, then playoff and championship weekends. What it costs: $330 for returning players, $350 for rookies, or $400 for a business to sponsor you outright.
Publishing the radar gun readings is the smartest answer on this page, because it is the question every 38-year-old is actually asking. A claimed league on High Cheese answers all of that beside the schedule, the standings and every player's own record.
Grip N Rip Baseball League in detail
- Baseball's Ultimate Second Chance: six Ozarks clubs, wood bats, nine innings, since 2015.
- Sundays at noon, three and six, with the night game billed as Baseball Night in the Ozarks.
- North and South divisions, ranked on win-loss, then head to head, then runs allowed.
- Every result carried inside its own write-up, with the records beside both clubs.
- Ducks, Suckers, Mavericks, Metropolitans, Showmen and Locos — each named for its town.
- An all-time player list, career batting lines in the Hall of Fame, and a 98 mph record.
- [email protected], a contact page, and a VP who asks for your ideas.
- $20 to try out at Meador Park, a 13-15 round draft, and 84 places across six clubs.
- Meador Park in Springfield, with a swimming pool 450 feet from home plate.
- Five innings max for any pitcher, three for the rest, and extra innings that change by round.
- Every game of the season written up, from opening day to the last out of the championship.
- Every Sunday game streamed free on YouTube, with play-by-play and post-game interviews.
- $400 to sponsor a player, $1,000 for a team, $250 to throw tacos at the crowd.
- An Eliminator round, a semifinal double header, and the Howard Bell Championship.
- Eleven seasons, 800 players, and a Town Ball Era that started in Season V.
- A commissioner, a VP of marketing with a Sports Management master's, and a Hall of Fame coach.
- A published rulebook, a dues sheet with every tier priced, and a hall of fame standard.
- Tryouts in June, a season from August to October, and one spare weekend held back.
- A cart on every page, and a custom hat that only team sponsors get.
- The clock, the lightning rule and the called game all sit with the officials — none are named.
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