Two, and one of them is generous
The league publishes its 2025 league rules as a downloadable document, and closes its history page by sending readers to the Society for American Baseball Research for research and historical records on baseball in Houston and beyond.
Directing your own members to somebody else's archive, because it is better than yours, is a confident thing for a league to do. No waiver, bylaws or field agreement renders. High Cheese keeps a league's documents beside the schedule and against the roster, so the rulebook sits where the games it governs are.
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.
- 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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