Named for the towns, and one for the traffic
The clubs appearing in results and in the manager directory include the St. Mathias Harvest, TC Twins, St. Michael Angels, Eden Prairie Saints, St. Louis Park Bees, St. Louis Park Goats, St. Peter Bullheads, Crosstown Traffic and the Minnesota Saints. Most carry a 50s or 60s suffix, so the same town fields two sides a decade apart.
St. Louis Park runs the Bees at 50 and the Goats at 60 under one manager, which is how a man keeps playing with the same people for twenty years. No roster of players is published. Rosters on High Cheese update as men sign and follow a player between clubs, divisions and seasons, so a Bee becoming a Goat is one continuous record.
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.
- 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.
- 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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