Everyone makes the team
The league's promise is unambiguous: everyone who signs up makes the team, there are no mandatory practices, and playing time is guaranteed. New players worried about being out of practice are invited to a new player workout held two weeks before the season starts, and told to come and judge for themselves.
Fees are published: $255 for the spring weekend league, $275 for the weeknight league, $180 for the 60+ league, and $1,400 for the winter camp. Registration is processed through an outside platform, opened on 22 June for the 2026 fall season with a deadline of 14 August, and the league asks people to register early so it can plan properly.
Placement is done centrally. Pitchers and catchers are spread among teams to balance them, every player is placed in the state he asks for, and the league is honest that specific team requests cannot all be honoured. A player who has registered and heard nothing from a manager within a few days of the season starting is told to write in.
A join page that states the fee beside the season, takes the registration and drops the player into a pool managers can see is what a High Cheese league page does at the league's own address -- which for a league placing several hundred men by hand each season is the same job with less chasing.
Ponce De Leon Baseball in detail
- Named for the man who went looking for the Fountain of Youth, and run on that principle.
- One game a week, with three separate opening days in the first week of April.
- There are no league standings, on purpose, and every team makes the playoffs.
- With no standings kept, results are not published either.
- Teams are built centrally by state, age and talent, and no roster is published.
- No statistics are published, in a league that caps innings and hit batsmen.
- A league email, a league phone number, and a second address for photographs.
- More than forty grounds across DC, Montgomery County and northern Virginia, each with an address and a map.
- Four runs an inning, nobody pitches before 36, and the batting order carries over from last week.
- Announcements and field status live at the top of the front page.
- The league asks players to send in game-day pictures; the division galleries say photos coming soon.
- No sponsor is named.
- Single elimination in spring and fall, seeded, with every team in.
- Founded in the 1980s — the site gives two different years — and serving 30-and-overs for more than thirty of them.
- A league manager and a managers' meeting; nobody is named.
- How old, how long, how often, and whether you will stick out.
- The rules, the costs and the uniform requirements are published as pages rather than files.
- A winter camp in Florida, a managers' dinner in March, three openings in April, and a fall deadline in August.
- A league jersey bought once per age division, and worn for as long as you keep coming back.
- The league is recruiting umpires, trains them, and pays them.
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