Three of five, and one of them uniquely
Who can play: men who turn 50 in the calendar year, in 50s and 60s brackets, seeded across seven divisions. When: one weekend day a week from early June to late September, six-inning doubleheaders, with five holiday weekends off and a one-day tournament to finish. How it works: clubs arrange their own games, up to four against any opponent, and the league seeds on strength of schedule.
Where the games are played and what it costs are nowhere — no field is named anywhere on the site. A claimed league on High Cheese answers all five beside the schedule and the standings, which for a self-scheduling league is also where the fixtures would finally become visible.
Minnesota 50+ Baseball League in detail
- Six-inning doubleheaders for men over fifty, June to September, wood bats only.
- Teams schedule their own games — any opponent, up to four times each.
- Seven divisions seeded on who you played, not just what you won.
- Doubleheaders recorded as two games, with cancellations kept on the record.
- Harvest, Twins, Angels, Saints, Bees, Goats, Bullheads and Crosstown Traffic.
- Leader categories offered; nothing entered.
- A manager per club with a number and an email, and a league domain of its own.
- Your league birthday is January 1st of the season you plan to play.
- Home and away doubleheaders arranged privately, and no ground named.
- Wood bats, six innings, and a rule named after the man who provoked it.
- A season start date, and a fourteen-year-old walk-off preserved above it.
- No album or gallery.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- A one-day league tournament on the last weekend of September, six innings a game.
- An In The Beginning page, a past season archive, and one play recorded in full.
- Every manager published by name, club and division — several running two teams.
- A rules page carrying every amendment year by year since 2016.
- First week of June to the last weekend of September, with five weekends deliberately empty.
- Full uniform required; nothing is sold.
- Declared to before every shared lineup, and never named.
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