Two pictures worth keeping
The About page is built around an image captioned 2015 All-Star Game at Minute Maid Park — an adult amateur league playing in the Astros' ballpark. The history page carries another: the roster photograph of the Twins, the league's first expansion side, the sixth team as it began to grow out of five.
Neither image renders for a plain reader; what survives is the caption. A photograph of the club that took a 1989 league from five teams to six is exactly the thing a thirty-seven-year-old organization should never lose. Team and league pages on High Cheese carry photos and push them into a feed the whole league reads.
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.
- 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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