Written down, and one rule that bites
The league publishes a full 2026 rulebook and its structural rules on the join page: six age divisions with different game counts and season lengths, a February tryout and draft, prorated fees for late arrivals. The rule with the sharpest edge is the surface one — no metal spikes on the Grand Park turf, molded rubber, plastic or turf shoes only, which applies to most of the games this league plays.
A cleat rule is the kind of thing a player finds out about at the gate unless somebody puts it where he is already reading. High Cheese keeps a league's rules beside its schedule and attaches a field's own restrictions to the fixture, so the man packing his bag on Saturday night knows.
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.
- Grand Park turf for most of it, high schools for the rest, and Victory Field in its history.
- 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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