Bring wood bats and a deep-seated love for the game
Maine Woods Baseball is an independent men's wood bat league in Midcoast Maine for players 45 and older, running two age divisions: Maine Woods 45 and Maine Woods 60, which takes players from 55. Its own statement of what it requires is the best-written in this directory — you must bring wood bats and a deep-seated love for the game, plus a positive attitude, a professional demeanour and team camaraderie, because you will connect with men from diverse professions and backgrounds, all united by that shared childhood dream: to play baseball forever.
Under the same umbrella sit two more programmes, Fall Ball and the Sunrise Base Ball Club of Brunswick, which the bylaws guarantee equal marketing, promotion, recruitment and financial support. Twelve seasons of results are on file. High Cheese gives a league one address it owns carrying all four programmes' schedules, tables and rosters, so an organization already this well governed stops depending on somebody updating a webmaster.
Maine Woods Baseball in detail
- A schedule page per division per year, updated by a webmaster after every change.
- Twelve years of results by season, with no live table on the site.
- Results kept season by season, on twelve separate pages.
- Braves, Cardinals, Cubs, Dodgers, Giants and Pirates at 45; Athletics, Orioles, Red Sox and White Sox at 60.
- The league supplies scorebooks to every team; no player figure is published.
- P.O. Box 845, Bath, Maine, a telephone number, and a contact form on every page.
- $250 for MW45, $190 for MW60, $300 for both — and no guaranteed roster spot.
- Kelley Field in Bath for most of it, plus Brunswick, Colby, Deering Oaks and a professional park.
- Solid wood, single-unit, non-hollow — with AXE and BAUM bats named as approved.
- An MWB Blog, a current weather page, and a crossover and waitlist list.
- A Photos page in each division, and a page for the championship trophy.
- Funded by fees, insured through Sadler, with officers paid in waived dues.
- Fifteen games plus playoffs at 45, twelve including playoffs at 60, and half the season played to qualify.
- Twelve seasons of results on file, 2014 through 2025, plus a championship trophy page.
- Nine named posts, elected annually to one-year terms, taking office on January 31.
- All five answered on one page, including the fifty percent attendance rule.
- Bylaws, a digital waiver, an insurance claim form, and a cancelled-game checklist.
- Workouts in April, draft on the 19th, opening day May 3, and two games at Old Orchard Beach.
- $400 a team a season for uniforms, reimbursed on receipts, sourced on the open market.
- Assigned through Arbiter, with the Scheduler booking a crew for every rescheduled game.
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