Including two rules it did not write
The league publishes its rules in full and requires every player to complete waiver and liability forms online before playing. Two sections are adopted wholesale from elsewhere: MLB's substitution rule, quoted at length, and the NCAA collision rule, reproduced with all of its approved rulings on flagrant contact, obstruction and when a runner is safe but ejected anyway.
Importing the NCAA's collision language rather than writing a home-plate rule from scratch is the right call for a league of grown men with jobs on Monday. High Cheese keeps a league's documents beside the schedule and against the roster, so the rule a manager needs is one click from the game it applies to.
Jacksonville MABL in detail
- Competitive, wood bat, MSBL/MABL affiliate, since 1988 — and governed in extraordinary 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 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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