Nobody builds the fixture list
The M50BL does not publish a schedule because it does not make one. Teams may arrange as many games as they want with any of the other clubs, up to a maximum of four against each — hopefully, the league says, a home and away doubleheader. Everything is played on one weekend day a week, with a possible seven-inning single game midweek.
An entirely self-organised fixture list is the most unusual structure in this directory, and it works only because every manager's telephone number is published. It also means no man can see what his club is playing next without ringing somebody. High Cheese builds and publishes a season as text on the league's own page and syncs it to every player's phone, so an agreement between two managers becomes a fixture everybody can see.
Minnesota 50+ Baseball League in detail
- Six-inning doubleheaders for men over fifty, June to September, wood bats only.
- 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.
- 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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