One name for two jobs
Adam Berge is named as founder and is the person the site invites everybody to ask. The league also refers to its president, who contacts free agents to arrange private tryouts, without naming him — the two may be the same man. The league sells professional organization management as a feature, and staffs it anonymously.
For seven competitions and a thousand players, one published name is thin cover. High Cheese lets a league name its officers and hand out real permissions, so the person arranging tryouts and the person running the AAA Friday competition are each reachable for the thing they actually do.
Houston Baseball Association in detail
- A thousand players a year, wood bats, professional umpires and seven separate leagues.
- 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.
- 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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