A suite, lunch, and a ring
The MSL runs its all-star games for all levels at a professional ballpark in Schaumburg, and its championship series for every division at the same stadium. All-star teams watch a Boomers game from a stadium suite with lunch included before their own game, with discounted concessions during both the all-star game and the championship series. Winners get championship rings and hats; runners-up get jackets. Every division gives individual awards for home runs, Cy Young, Gold Glove and MVP. Playoffs are best of three.
Putting amateur men in a stadium suite before they play their all-star game is the single most generous thing any league in this directory does for its players. High Cheese builds and runs a bracket off the standings a season already produced and carries a league's own events and awards on the same page, so five championship series and twenty individual awards are recorded where the season is.
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.
- 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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