Whoever found you, keeps you
The 2026 new player workout is April 12 at Hart Field on Spokane's South Hill — 18+ from noon to 2pm, then 30+, 45+ and 60+ from 2 to 4. Every player must create an account on the league's own portal. Roster paperwork is exacting: rosters due by opening day with league and player fees, proof of date of birth, application and waiver forms, and no changes after mid-season except injury or a player quitting.
The rule that governs recruitment is unusually clear-eyed. A player who reaches the league through its advertising is assigned by the league, through the tryout and draft. A player a club recruits itself belongs to that club. Anybody arriving after the tryout is pointed at teams that still need bodies. A High Cheese free agent pool makes that pool public all season, so a man who turns up in July is visible to twenty-two managers instead of relying on who happened to find him.
Inland Northwest MABL/MSBL in detail
- Two hundred players across eastern Washington and north Idaho, May to October, wood bats.
- Four divisions on four different days, doubleheaders on Sundays, twenty minutes between games.
- Percentage, then head to head, then inter-division record, then runs against.
- Ties are final, five innings makes it official, and no result is published.
- Twenty-two clubs across four divisions, dressed as real franchises.
- Scored through GameChanger; nothing published on the league's own pages.
- Bret Fink, president, on 208-641-9255, plus a contact form.
- Local high schools, Hart Field for the workout, and occasional games at Avista Stadium.
- Replica uniforms only, wood bats, and a forfeit that punishes both clubs.
- Categories for 18+, 32+, league news and tournaments — and a standing call for players.
- A 2025 class of six, inducted at a golf club in Liberty Lake, each with a filmed citation.
- The rulebook makes room for a sponsor on the shirt; no sponsor is named.
- Double elimination in summer, single in fall, and a national circuit of 500 teams.
- Champion and runner-up every year — Phillies five straight, then Rockies three.
- Bret Fink is president; three past presidents are named with their years.
- Who, when, where and how to join are answered. Only the fee is missing.
- A ten-section rulebook, waiver and application forms, and proof of age required.
- A workout in April, baseball from late May to October, and a fall league after the summer one.
- Replica uniforms are required; nothing is sold.
- An Umpire Coordinator, a two-hour rain deadline, and a bill if you miss it.
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