Named when they win something
The league carries 46-plus teams across five divisions. The clubs it names are the ones that have won: the Palatine Orioles, the Rangers, the Astros, the Chicago Rebels, the Chicago Reds and the Fox Valley Bulldogs among its early champions, and five sides identified as national title holders — the Ravens, Lookouts, Gators, Red Hawks and Cubs.
Five clubs from one league holding national titles is the strongest competitive claim in this directory, and it belongs to a league that describes its Central division as being for newly formed teams with high school experience. No roster of players is published anywhere. Rosters on High Cheese update as men sign and follow a player between clubs, divisions and seasons, so forty-six clubs are forty-six pages rather than a number.
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.
- 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.
- What standard, what format and what you get are answered in detail. The fee is not.
- 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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