Four claims, and a rulebook behind them
The league describes itself in four badges on its front page: competitive league, wood bat, MSBL/MABL affiliate, since 1988. Its own pitch is the plainest in this directory — if you are not ready to hang up your spikes, or you have found them again for the first time in years, the Jacksonville MABL is the place for you. It plays across seven Duval County parks and drafts new players each spring.
What sets it apart is what it has written down. The rulebook governs the colour of a pitcher's sleeves, the order in which teams contribute replacement baseballs, and what happens if a player charges the mound twice. What it does not carry is a single fixture, table or roster — its own front page reserves space for Games for Today and Current Standings and fills neither. High Cheese gives a league one address holding both the rules it has thought this hard about and the season they govern.
Jacksonville MABL in detail
- A Games for Today block with no games in it.
- A Current Standings panel on the front page, showing a top five of nobody.
- Two weeks to make up a rainout, and a forfeit for whichever club cannot.
- Sixteen to start, final by June 1, and playing an ineligible man costs a manager his season.
- A Clubhouse and a Current Players section, with nothing published in either.
- A registration form, and no email address, telephone number or name anywhere.
- A spring draft at Marietta Bulls Bay Park, and $50 that you must not claim back.
- Seven Duval County parks with street addresses, and one flagged limited use.
- Fourteen sections: run rules, A/B slots, borrowed players, and no white sleeves for pitchers.
- Three articles, all posted the same day, none of them about this league.
- A 2025 Season Teams block and three testimonials — and no photograph.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- Six league games to be eligible, MABL events at 18-27 and MSBL at 28 and over.
- Since 1988 on the badge, and a History page carrying the national body's boilerplate.
- A President, a Board of Directors, a League Office and a Field and Umpire Director.
- Who and where are answered exhaustively. When and how much are not.
- A fourteen-section rulebook, online waivers, and two borrowed codes.
- A March draft, a Jamboree, fees due June 1, and rosters locked the same day.
- The Hops Store, selling team clothing online.
- One umpire and the game is played; none and it is cancelled — and the Board backs them.
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