Family baseball, literally
The 2026 season carries the Twin City Trash Pandas, the Shreveport Firedogs, the Shreveport Storm and the Elysian Fields Rangers in the 18+ division, and the Redbirds and the Red River Rats in the 27+.
The Rangers' published roster runs to twenty-four names and is the most telling thing on the site. Brandon Goswick manages, and Larry Goswick and Shane Goswick are on the list with him. There are two Martinezes, Elijah and Jonathan. And there is Kirk Martinson and Kirk Martinson II, which in an 18-and-over league almost certainly means a father and son in the same lineup.
David Pratt is on that roster too, and he is the league president.
That is what an adult league in a region this size actually looks like, and none of those clubs has a page of its own. A High Cheese team page belongs to the club rather than the season, so the Rangers keep one address across every roster, result and title -- with the Martinsons still in it.
Red River Adult Baseball League in detail
- Real wood bats, real cleats, real baseball — and nobody who wants to play gets turned away.
- 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.
- 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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