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Maine Woods 45 plays fifteen regular season games plus playoffs; Maine Woods 60 plays twelve or more including playoffs. A player qualifies for the postseason only by attending fifty percent of scheduled games — the league is explicit that nobody is required to play every week, but half is the line.
Setting a participation floor rather than a fixed game count is the fair way to do it in a league where men in their fifties and sixties have work and knees, and it is enforceable only if somebody counts. High Cheese builds and runs a bracket off the standings the season already produced and knows from the roster who has played half the games, so eligibility is a fact rather than an argument in August.
Maine Woods Baseball in detail
- Independent, wood bat, 45 and older, in Midcoast Maine — two divisions and four programmes.
- 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.
- 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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