Read the three descriptions in order
Are you 17 and good? AAA, seven innings, Sunday doubleheaders plus a weeknight every other week, mid-May to mid-August, best-of-three playoffs, full of current and former local college players. Sixteen-year-olds get in with a guardian's signature.
Are you 25 in the calendar year? AA, nine innings, Sunday singles plus a weeknight every two or three weeks, late April to September playoffs, single elimination. No exceptions on the age.
Are you 17 or over and haven't played college ball in the last twenty years? The A league, which exists specifically for you.
That last one is the answer to the question adult leagues get asked most and answer worst -- will I be out of my depth -- and the RBL answered it by building a competition where the college players are not allowed.
What is unanswered is what any of it costs and where any of it is played. A High Cheese league page puts the fee and the ground on the same page as the free agent form.
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.
- An RBL Rule Book is published from the front page.
- AA from late April, AAA from mid-May, playoffs in August and September.
- Nothing is for sale by the league.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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