Fourteen seasons a year
Every one of the seven competitions runs both a spring and a fall season, which is fourteen seasons of adult baseball a year: AAA on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, AA on Saturday and Sunday, Recreation on Saturday and Sunday.
Not one date is published — no start, finish, registration deadline or playoff weekend for any of them. A High Cheese calendar carries all fourteen and subscribes to a player's phone, so a man in the AAA Saturday spring competition knows when the fall one opens without emailing the founder.
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.
- 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.
- Every player supplies his own; nothing is sold.
- Professional umpires, listed second among the reasons to join.
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