Don't go soft. Play hard.
The RRABL is based in Shreveport and draws from the Ark-La-Tex -- North Louisiana, East Texas and Southern Arkansas -- describing itself as a recreational league for mature and responsible adults, affiliated with the national Men's Senior Baseball League. It plays wood bats on weekends from late April to the end of August, in two divisions, 18-and-over and 27-and-over, each on a twelve-game schedule.
Its front page runs four lines in a column: real wood bats, real competition, real cleats, real baseball. Its information page ends with a slogan: don't go soft, play hard. And in between it makes the most generous promise any league in this directory makes -- players of all skill levels are welcome, and no interested player will be turned away, as long as a player's lack of skill doesn't put them at serious risk of danger.
Everything the league keeps lives on a rented host with a visitor counter at the bottom. A High Cheese league page puts the schedule, the standings and every roster at an address the league owns, so seventeen years of records stop depending on somebody else's platform staying in business.
Red River Adult Baseball League in detail
- Weekend games across two states, with the 27+ division playing doubleheaders.
- Three teams inside a game and a half, with ties broken on runs allowed.
- Results feed the standings; no game is written up.
- Six clubs across two divisions, and a roster with three Goswicks and two Martinsons on it.
- Twenty statistical categories offered by the host, across seventeen seasons of archives.
- A league address and a named president who also plays.
- $240 a season, no payment at registration, and a March draft workout for new players.
- Tinsley Park in Shreveport, and a high school field over the Texas line.
- No current college players at any level, and three years removed from professional ball.
- A newsletter subscription and one long standing post about how to join.
- No gallery is published.
- No sponsor is named.
- A fall league is archived for 2011; no champion is named in any year.
- Thirty-three years, two names, and a division structure that has changed almost every season.
- A league president and six team managers.
- Cost, length, eligibility and whether you are good enough are all answered outright.
- Two online forms — summer registration and an interested player enquiry.
- A draft workout in March, a season from late April to the end of August.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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