Written down, and split by age
The league publishes five documents on its front page: Over 18 rules, a separate set for Over 45 and Over 60, its bylaws, its Hall of Fame criteria, and a code of conduct reminder.
Writing two rulebooks — one for the youngest division and one shared by the two oldest — is the right structural call, because a 60+ game and an 18+ game are different sports played to the same scorebook. Publishing the Hall of Fame criteria is rarer still: it means an induction is an argument somebody can check rather than a decision taken in a room.
Alongside them sits something no other league in this directory has published: a full clinical brief on heat injury, contributed by a league doctor. It separates heat fatigue, cramps, exhaustion and stroke, gives the symptoms and the treatment for each, notes that performance drops with as little as one percent fluid loss and that acclimation takes seven to fourteen days, and is blunt about prevention — leave the beer alone the day before, and you should need to urinate at least twice during a game. For a league whose oldest division is 60 and over, playing in a Pennsylvania August, that is the most useful document on the site. High Cheese keeps a league's documents beside the schedule and against the rosters, so a heat brief is attached to the games it was written for.
Lehigh Valley MABL/MSBL in detail
- A registered charity running over-18, over-45 and over-60 baseball in the Lehigh Valley.
- Three divisions playing somewhere, and not one fixture published.
- A 2026 Stats and Standings link on the front page, and nothing behind it.
- No results are published.
- No clubs are named.
- Six leader categories inherited from the old site, none of them carrying a name.
- [email protected] for the Board of Directors, plus a Facebook page.
- A free agent route on the old site, and two registration forms on the new one for money.
- Emerald Playground Association, 7748 Penn St, Slatington — the one ground named.
- Separate rulebooks for over-18 and for over-45 and over-60.
- A working newsroom: inductees, a new sponsor, a donation drive, and two national profiles.
- Five inducted in 2026, before the all-star games, with classes going back to 2015.
- A wealth manager called Halftime, and sponsors named against Hall of Fame inductees.
- All-star games on August 1 at Slatington, with the Hall of Fame inducted first.
- A Prior Champions section, a Hall of Fame with classes back to 2015, and a site that just moved.
- Joe Vallely as president, Greg Stokes as vice president, Vinnie Eiden on 18 and 45.
- Who and how to ask are answered. When, where and what it costs are not.
- Hall of Fame and all-star games August 1, golf outing and awards dinner October 11.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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