Turf first, by choice
Most IBL baseball is played on the turf fields at Grand Park in Westfield, with relationships across Indianapolis high schools covering the rest. The league's history adds the two grounds it is proudest of: eight games at Victory Field in 1997, the new home of the Indianapolis Indians and a park many have called the best minor league facility in the country, and a round robin for three of its clubs at Cinergy Field in Cincinnati.
Building a fifty-club league around turf is a deliberate answer to an Indiana spring — it is the reason four hundred games a year actually get played. No address, map or field assignment is published for any fixture. High Cheese ties the ballpark, the address, the map and its surface rules to the game itself, so a player knows which cleats to put in the car.
Indianapolis MSBL/MABL in detail
- Over fifty teams, six age divisions, four hundred games a year, mostly on turf.
- 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.
- 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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