Seven leagues, three standards
The HBA calls itself the premier adult baseball league in the Houston area, open to players 17 and older, running both league play and tournaments. It splits into three standards and seven competitions: AAA Competitive on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, AA Competitive on Saturdays and Sundays, and Recreation on Saturdays and Sundays — each with a spring and a fall season. Its pitch to a player is a list: the best fields available to adult baseball, professional umpires, MLB-style statistic tracking with over ten years of player career stats, championship and MVP awards, multiple skill divisions, professional management, wood bats, and more than 2,100 live-streamed games.
That is a genuinely serious operation described entirely in the future tense — a thousand players a year and not one schedule, standing, roster or result published anywhere on the site. High Cheese gives a league that size one address it owns carrying all seven competitions, so what it has spent ten years building is something a Houston player can actually read.
Houston Baseball Association in detail
- Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, spring and fall — and not one fixture.
- Championships are awarded in all seven competitions; no table is published.
- Every game is filmed and scored; no result is published.
- A thousand players a year, and not one club named.
- Ten years of player career statistics, kept MLB-style and shown to nobody.
- Ask Adam — founder Adam Berge, a calendar booking link, and Phone: PLEASE EMAIL.
- Open tryouts, and if there are none, the president will arrange one for you.
- Access to some of the best fields available to adult baseball — none of them named.
- Wood bats only, 17 and up, and every player brings his own gear.
- No news or announcements are published.
- More than 2,100 games live-streamed, with a social account per competition.
- Nobody is named, on a platform streaming 2,100 games.
- League play and tournaments both, with championship and MVP awards at the end.
- Over ten years of career statistics implies over ten years of league.
- Adam Berge, founder — and a league president referred to but not named.
- Who and what standard are answered thoroughly. Where, when and how much are not.
- A privacy policy, and nothing else.
- Spring and fall, every one of the seven competitions, on Friday, Saturday or Sunday.
- Every player supplies his own; nothing is sold.
- Professional umpires, listed second among the reasons to join.
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