Happy belated birthday
The eligibility rule is written with a joke attached: your M50BL birthday is January 1st of the season in which you plan to play — happy belated birthday. In practice a man who turns fifty at any point during the year is fifty from the first day of it.
Backdating everybody's birthday to January means nobody sits out half a season waiting to be old enough, which in a league whose divisions run 50s and 60s matters twice. No fee, deadline or free agent route is published; the way in is the published manager directory. A High Cheese free agent pool runs on the league's own page all season, so a man turning fifty in August can be seen by every manager rather than ringing eight of them.
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.
- 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.
- Who, when and how it works are answered in detail. Where and what it costs are not.
- 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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