Run by the city, sorted by ability
The Department of Recreation and Parks Municipal Sports Division coordinates adult baseball leagues twice a year, minimum age 18. Clubs are placed in one of four divisions by standard rather than age: Major for exceptional and good players, AAA for good players, AA for good to average, and A for beginners. Every league travels — games rotate from location to location, with current fields ranging from the mid-San Fernando Valley to East Los Angeles, and from Griffith Park to West and South Central Los Angeles.
Sorting by ability instead of by decade is the opposite of nearly every league in this directory, and for a city this size it is the more useful cut: a good 45-year-old plays Major, a beginner of 22 plays A. What the city cannot do is make any of it findable — the schedules, scores and standings sit behind download links on a municipal sports page. High Cheese gives a league one address it owns with the fixtures, tables and rosters in plain text, so four divisions of Los Angeles baseball are searchable by the men playing in them.
Los Angeles Rec Baseball in detail
- Twelve or thirteen Sunday games a season, published per division as files.
- Tables kept per division per season, published as separate downloads.
- Results published per division per season, with a blank scorecard supplied.
- A free agent list you can only read in person, at a counter in North Hollywood.
- A scorecard is supplied to every club; no player figure is published.
- Valley Sports Office, 6911 Laurelgrove Ave, North Hollywood — phone, fax and email.
- $910 a team, itemised: twelve or thirteen games, thirty-six baseballs, awards, and a bond back.
- A traveling league: the Valley, East LA, Griffith Park, West LA and South Central.
- Four skill divisions, 18 and over, supplemental rules published as a download.
- Registration dates only.
- A Baseball Photographs link among the downloads.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- Awards for first and second, paid for inside the team fee.
- A Department of Parks written into the city's first charter in 1889.
- John Knight as Baseball Director, Daniel Hernandez as Recreation Coordinator.
- All five answered, including the one nobody else answers: what it really costs.
- Nine downloads: registration, fact sheet, supplemental rules, protest form, scorecard, code of conduct.
- Two seasons a year: register in late January, play from mid-April.
- Thirty-six baseballs come with the fee; nothing else is sold.
- $100 per game per team, paid on the field before first pitch.
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