Book time on his calendar
The league's contact section appears twice on the same page under the heading Ask Adam, naming Adam Berge as founder of the Houston Baseball Association and offering a link to book time on his calendar. Where a telephone number would go, the page reads: Phone: PLEASE EMAIL. No email address renders anywhere on it.
Publishing a calendar link so a prospective player can book a slot with the founder is a better contact route than most leagues here offer. Putting PLEASE EMAIL where the number goes, without the address, is the same instinct getting in its own way. A claimed league on High Cheese answers the routine questions on the page and keeps a working contact beside them, so the founder's calendar fills with the conversations worth having.
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.
- 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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