Twenty-five to thirty clubs, seven of them visible
The league carries twenty-five to thirty teams across its four divisions. The only ones named anywhere are those that reached a championship: the Houston Stealth, the A's, the Roughnecks, the Houston Cyclones, the Royals, the Angels and the Houston Gamblers. Managers surface the same way — Michael Greer with the A's, Jonathan Garcia and Jonathan Garza with the Stealth, Pedro Rivera with the Gamblers.
That leaves about twenty clubs with no public existence at all, and no roster is published for any of them. Rosters on High Cheese update as men sign and follow a player between clubs, divisions and seasons, so a club is a page whether or not it won anything.
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.
- 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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