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Divisions: 18+, 35+, 50+ and 60+. Size: about twenty-six teams and almost 450 players. Season: sixteen games on weekends from April, then semi-finals and a championship series. Tryouts: mid-February to early March, with at least one workout compulsory -- and if you want to pitch or catch, you must work out at that position to be eligible.
Skill level: the league says explicitly that it is for everyone who loves hardball regardless of ability, and that everyone interested is encouraged to participate.
What is not published is the fee, though the rulebook has a numbered section for team fees and payments to the league.
A High Cheese league page states the fee beside the division it buys, on the same page as the registration form and the tryout date.
San Francisco MSBL in detail
- Don't go soft. Play hardball. Four divisions, 450 players, and two men who have never missed a season since 1988.
- Sixteen games on weekends from April, across four divisions and four sub-regions.
- Standings and a stats login sit together in the navigation.
- Results feed standings and a written history; neither is public.
- Twenty-six clubs, many of them named in the Hall of Fame decades after they folded.
- A stats login, and a written history full of numbers the league clearly keeps.
- A contact page, a board and a president with real authority behind them.
- Tryouts in February, a compulsory workout, and pitchers and catchers must show it at the position.
- Facilities are the league's first stated promise; no ground is named.
- A Fairness Doctrine at the front, and four separate rules against clubs gaming the draft.
- Announcements on the front page, with an archive of retired ones.
- No gallery is published.
- A sponsors section sits in the top-level navigation.
- Semi-finals and a championship series, plus tournament teams in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Palm Springs and Florida.
- A written history of every championship since 1988, told as stories rather than a list.
- More than seventy inductees since 1999, with published criteria and a three-quarters vote.
- Rules and regulations, bylaws filed with the State of California, and a league content archive.
- Tryouts February to March, sixteen games from April, and a World Series in the fall.
- Nothing is for sale; uniforms are governed by numbered rule.
- The best officials the league can provide, and a numbered rule against abusing them.
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