Sorted by what your weekend is worth
The HHL runs four divisions and two full seasons a year, spring and fall, under official MLB National League rules with only minor modifications. The Open Division plays Sundays at the highest standard, drawing former collegiate and professional players. The 35+ Wood Bat Division plays Sunday afternoons and is aimed squarely at men coming back after years away for work or family. The 55+ plays Sunday afternoons too. And the Weeknight Division exists for one reason the league states plainly: working professionals who want to keep their weekends free.
Building a whole division around not spending Saturday away from your family is the most honest piece of product design in this directory. What the league cannot show is any of it in motion — the standings, schedule, registration and field pages are all empty. High Cheese gives a league one address carrying four divisions' fixtures, tables and rosters, so the case it makes on its About page is visible on every other one.
Houston MSBL/MABL in detail
- A Schedule – Fall 2026 page with nothing on it.
- A Standings – Fall 2026 page, and a Spring page behind it, both empty.
- Championship finals are reported; nothing else is.
- Stealth, A's, Roughnecks, Cyclones, Royals, Angels and Gamblers — named only when they win.
- Kept on GameChanger for the tournament, and nowhere for the league.
- An office in Spring, a telephone number, and a promise to answer within 24 to 48 hours.
- Come to the next tryouts — and an empty Registration page where the form should be.
- A Field Locations page with no locations, and a league that has built two diamonds.
- MLB National League rules with minor modifications, published as a dated PDF.
- Championship write-ups with the MVP, the score and the manager, season after season.
- An all-star game at Minute Maid Park, and the first expansion team's roster photograph.
- Ten schools, a foundation partnership, and two new fields built at Meyer Park.
- Labor Day weekend, $2,500 a team, locked rosters, and championship rings at the end.
- Five teams at Memorial Ashford in 1989, nearly forty by the early 2000s, thirty today.
- Larry Wiggins founded it in 1989; nobody is named as running it now.
- Who and what standard are answered in detail. Where, when and how much are not.
- A dated rulebook PDF, and a pointer to SABR for anybody who wants the deeper history.
- Two seasons a year, plus a national tournament circuit posted with dates and divisions.
- Rings and engraved bats for the tournament; nothing for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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