The answers that actually differ by division
Stealing is unrestricted at 25+, 40+ and 50+. At 60+ and 65+ nobody steals second, though a runner may go on a windup, on a pickoff throw that gets away once he has retagged, or on a pitch that gets past the catcher and off the clay. At 70+ nobody steals at all under the same conditions. In those three divisions a batter cannot be thrown out at first on a ball hit to the outfield, unless an infielder who was on the dirt at the pitch ranges in to make what the umpire judges a routine play.
Courtesy runners follow the same pattern: none at 25+ through 50+ except a two-out runner for the catcher, an agreement available in the older divisions to run for the catcher regardless of outs -- explicitly for hot days -- and one full courtesy runner at 65+ and 70+ when twelve or more men are in the lineup.
The money answers are exact too. A forfeit costs $200, payable before the next game or the team comes off the schedule with no refund, waivable by the president if the notice was early enough to cancel umpires and fields. A protest costs $50, must be lodged within 24 hours, is refunded if upheld, and may only concern rules rather than judgment calls.
That is a league with an answer for everything except where and when it plays. A High Cheese league page carries the rules and the fixtures at one address, so the two halves of the answer arrive together.
Ohio MSBL in detail
- Six age divisions from 25 to 70-and-over, run as an LLC on a rulebook of forty thousand words.
- The schedule page exists and is completely empty.
- Standings decide playoff eligibility and are published nowhere.
- The home team's scorebook is the official record, and it is a paper book.
- Fifteen to twenty players a team, with a cap the league says exists to prevent hoarding.
- The rules depend on counting games played; nothing counted is published.
- The one published number is a rain line.
- One registration link covers every division from 25+ to 70+, with free agents choosing that option.
- The field locations page is empty, though the rules name Munson Stadium.
- OHSAA rules as the foundation, with line sharing, shootouts, bench restrictions and a decoy rule on top.
- One announcement: registration for 2026 is open.
- No gallery is published.
- Sponsored teams may wear the sponsor's name; no sponsor is named.
- Playoff eligibility is written into the rules; the bracket is not published.
- The rulebook is the only record of the league's past, and it reads like one.
- A board of division commissioners, a president and a CEO — none of them named.
- The rulebook, its two appendices and a waiver every player signs.
- The rules are precisely dated; the season is not dated at all.
- Nothing is for sale; the league supplies the balls.
- The rulebook gives umpires unusual authority and names no crew.
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