Named for the island
The 18+ alone fields the USA Biscuits, New York Knights, Franklin Square Seminoles, Long Island Blue Claws, Williston Park Patriots, Orioles Baseball, Long Island Screaming Eagles, Long Island Cardinals and Rockies. The fixtures across the other five divisions add the Massapequa Braves, Long Island Blue Jays, LI/Metro Cardinals, Long Island Wolfpack, Massapequa Cardinals, New York Astros, Long Island Tides, North Shore Yankees, Massapequa Pirates and Long Island Indians.
Massapequa alone has three clubs across three age brackets, which is what a properly built age-division structure looks like: a man moves up and stays in his own town. No roster or player is published anywhere. Rosters on High Cheese update as men sign and follow a player between clubs, divisions and seasons, so a Massapequa Brave becoming a Massapequa Pirate at 60 is one continuous record.
Long Island MSBL/MABL in detail
- Six divisions from 18+ to 60+, forty-five ballparks, and an office with a phone number.
- Sunday mornings from 8:30, six divisions at once, across the whole island.
- USA Biscuits 20-0 in the 18+, and twelve tables across two seasons.
- USA Biscuits 18 Williston Park 2, and results filed by division and club.
- Six leader categories offered behind each of twelve division-seasons.
- One Huntington Quad, Suite 3NO7, Melville, and 631-753-6725.
- Six divisions, a league office and a telephone number — and no published route in.
- Forty-five venues with addresses, from Adelphi to Zahn's Park, half of them turf.
- A rulebook that loosens as the divisions get older, and a use-it-or-lose-it runner rule.
- Three headlines: the store, the policies, and the rules highlights.
- No album or gallery.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- Six divisions with tiebreakers published, and no bracket on the site.
- Two seasons on file across six divisions, and nothing before them.
- A league office at One Huntington Quad, a telephone number, and no contact table entries.
- Where and when are answered in enormous detail. What it costs is not.
- Lineup cards with full names and numbers, unique jerseys, league balls, and ID at the field.
- Sunday mornings and weeknights, with weeknight games cut to seven innings.
- A league store hosted by a uniform supplier in Melville.
- $270 a game if you forfeit, and two forfeits means expulsion.
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