Four of five, and the fourth is unusually complete
Who can play: five levels from experienced wood bat down to an instructional league, sorted by ability rather than age, with a weeknight option. When: a 22-game weekend season from May, best-of-three playoffs, championship series at a professional stadium. Where: college, minor league and community parks across Chicago's northwest suburbs, all with grass infields, dugouts and fences. What you get: rings, hats, runner-up jackets, four individual awards per division, a stadium suite for all-stars, and tournament opportunities in Florida, Arizona and Las Vegas.
What it costs is the one thing missing, described only as low team fees back in 1998. A claimed league on High Cheese answers all five beside the standings and the schedule, which for a league selling this hard is the last line it needs.
Midwest Suburban League in detail
- Founded 1998 by men fed up with disorganised leagues; now 46-plus teams across five levels.
- Twenty-two weekend games per club, across five divisions and forty-six teams.
- A separate archived page for nearly every season from 2000 to 2021.
- Twenty years of standings; no individual result published.
- Forty-six-plus clubs, and five named as national title holders.
- MVP, Gold Glove, Cy Young and home run awards, in every one of five divisions.
- A Batavia PO box, a direct number, and a league hotline.
- A player pool to help team rosters, and a Director of Player Personnel to run it.
- College, minor league and community parks — grass infields, dugouts, fences, mostly lights.
- Five levels sorted by ability, not age — all of them wood bat.
- The league's own story, told once and left as its front page.
- Suites, rings, jackets and a professional ballpark — none of it shown.
- A stadium partnership doing the work a sponsor page would.
- Championship series in a professional stadium, rings for the winners, jackets for the runners-up.
- Champions from 1998 onward, and standings archived year by year back to 2000.
- Larry Kolcz as President, Eric Page on player personnel, and an Advisory Committee behind them.
- Fully insured games, and an award-winning website of its own account.
- A 22-game weekend schedule, plus a weeknight division for men who want Saturdays back.
- Rings, hats and jackets are won rather than sold.
- Every game fully umpired, and not one official named.
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