Its own year, and the country's
The league plays a spring and a fall season in each of its four divisions, and publishes the national calendar alongside them: the Las Vegas Open May 23-26 across seven age brackets from 18+ to 70+, Stars and Stripes in West Palm Beach May 24-26 at 18+, 32+, 42+ and 54+, its own Texas Cup Classic over Labor Day weekend, the MSBL World Series in Tempe from October 18 to November 7, and the Fall Classic in Jupiter and West Palm Beach November 7 to 21.
Posting five tournaments with dates and divisions is a league telling its members how to spend a whole year rather than a season. Its own Schedule – Fall 2026 page is empty. A High Cheese calendar carries the league fixtures and the travel dates on one subscription, so a 55+ player planning October sees both.
Houston MSBL/MABL in detail
- Four divisions, two seasons a year, MLB National League rules, and thirty-seven years of it.
- 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.
- Rings and engraved bats for the tournament; nothing for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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