Don't go soft, play hardball
The IBL runs more than fifty clubs across central Indiana playing over four hundred games a year in six age groups — 18+, 25+, 35+, 45+, 55+ and an HTA division open at 28 and over. Every division holds an all-star game and playoffs, with awards for individuals and championship sides. It uses United Umpires exclusively for every game, plays most of its baseball on the turf fields at Grand Park, and keeps relationships with high schools around Indianapolis for the rest. Its own sign-off is four words: don't go soft, play hardball.
Fifty clubs and four hundred games is one of the largest operations in this directory, and the site carries no schedule, standings or roster for any of it. High Cheese gives a league that size one address it owns, with six divisions' fixtures, tables and rosters on it, so four hundred games a year leave a record rather than a total.
Indianapolis MSBL/MABL in detail
- A Schedule tab, a Scoreboard tab, and six divisions' worth of games behind them.
- Champions and their managers back to 2016 — Hurricanes three times.
- A Scoreboard section, and no score on it.
- Over fifty clubs — Hurricanes, Arrows, War Eagles, Orioles, Stealth, Mustangs, Blue Jays, Indians.
- MVP and Cy Young winners by year, and two manager awards named after people.
- [email protected], a Carmel PO box, and four named officers.
- Six divisions priced from $250 to $325, a February tryout and draft, and a pool if you miss it.
- Grand Park turf for most of it, high schools for the rest, and Victory Field in its history.
- A 2026 rulebook, six age divisions, and a hard cleat rule on turf.
- Season status by division: two well under way, two started, two still to come.
- Victory Field, Cinergy Field and a uniformed clinic at Camp Riley — all described, none shown.
- A rehab specialist in Carmel who pitched at DePauw and plays in the 25+.
- All turf at Grand Park, all games to completion, and no metal spikes.
- A Christmas Day newspaper article in 1989, a hundred phone calls, and nine teams.
- President, Vice President, Controller and Marketing — all four named on every page.
- All five answered on the join page, division by division, before you have to ask anybody.
- A 2026 rulebook, an FAQ, an online waiver and a fee payment page.
- Six divisions opening on six different dates, from April 12 to August 6.
- Fees are paid online; nothing is sold.
- United Umpires, exclusively, for every one of four hundred games.
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