Two of five, and a booking link for the rest
Who can play: 17 and older, at three standards — AAA and AA competitive, or recreation. What you need: wood bats, helmet, glove, catcher's gear if applicable, white or grey pants and cleats of any kind. How to join: attend an open tryout, or wait for the president to arrange one for you.
Where games are played, when the seasons run and what any of it costs are nowhere on the site — the answer to all three is to book time on the founder's calendar. A claimed league on High Cheese answers all five on the same page as the schedule and the standings, which is a thousand conversations a year that no longer need an appointment.
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.
- 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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