A blank page under a menu item
Schedule is the fourth item in the league's navigation and the page behind it contains nothing at all -- no season dates, no fixtures, no start times, in a league running six age divisions.
What the rules say about game time is exact: games begin precisely on time if the field is ready, the home team may take fifteen minutes of infield practice from thirty minutes before first pitch and the visitors fifteen minutes from fifteen minutes before, there is no grace period for late players, and eight men must be in uniform on the field at the scheduled time or the game is a forfeit. Official game time is the first pitch, not when the teams take the field.
A league that strict about the clock should not be leaving its fixture list off the web. A High Cheese schedule puts every game, its field and its start time into each player's phone, which is the only version of a schedule that ever reaches the man who is about to be the ninth player.
Ohio MSBL in detail
- Six age divisions from 25 to 70-and-over, run as an LLC on a rulebook of forty thousand words.
- 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.
- How the older divisions differ, what a forfeit costs, and what a protest costs.
- 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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