A decade of careers, behind a login
The league leads its own sales pitch with MLB-style statistic tracking and over ten years of player career stats. For an adult league that is an extraordinary asset: a man who started in the AA Saturday competition in 2016 has a decade of his own baseball recorded somewhere in this system.
Not one figure reaches a plain reader. A career that long is exactly the thing a player wants to be able to show somebody, and it currently cannot leave the platform. Statistics on High Cheese come out of the box scores as they are entered and follow a man between clubs, divisions and seasons on a page anybody can find by searching his name.
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.
- 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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