Two openings, two endings
AA starts in the last week of April and finishes with playoffs in September. AAA starts in the third week of May and ends in the third week of August, with its best-of-three series after that. The draft runs before both.
The league dates all of this as tradition rather than as fixed calendar entries -- traditionally start, traditionally end -- which is honest for a competition dependent on Rochester weather.
A season entered once on a High Cheese league page puts the draft, both opening days and both postseasons into every player's own calendar, and the following year's dates replace them without anyone rewriting a paragraph.
Rochester Baseball League in detail
- Three leagues, one of them built specifically for men who never played college ball.
- Three different calendars — AAA from mid-May, AA from late April, each with weeknights.
- Playoffs are seeded across three leagues; no table is published.
- No result is published.
- Eleven clubs across three leagues, and every 2026 draft pick published by round.
- No statistics are published.
- Four officers with addresses on the league's own domain.
- A free agent form for new players, feeding a published draft.
- No ballpark is named.
- Seven innings and doubleheaders in AAA, nine innings and singles in AA, and a twenty-year college bar in A.
- The front page carries the draft results, and a marketing director was appointed in 2025.
- No gallery is published.
- Four backers, two of them bat makers — including one that makes Rochester maple.
- Best-of-three series in AAA, single elimination in AA.
- Inducted into the NABA Hall of Fame in 2006, with a commissioner in post since 2010.
- Every officer named with the year they took the role, and a board of six chosen in 2025.
- Which league am I in — and the answer depends on when you last played college ball.
- An RBL Rule Book is published from the front page.
- Nothing is for sale by the league.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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