An alternative to softball, stated in the first line
Seacoast Men's Baseball was established in 1990 and is in its thirty-sixth season. Its rulebook opens by saying why it exists: to provide men 25 and over an alternative to softball and enable them to play the game they all grew up playing.
The season runs May to September -- fourteen regular season games, then playoffs and a league championship. Games are seven innings on a two hour fifteen minute limit, at nine and half past eleven in the morning, in wood bats only. Playoff games must be played to completion at nine innings, suspended and resumed if rain or darkness intervenes.
Its clubs include the Astros, Brewers, Mariners, Orioles and Diamondbacks, and the Astros were 2025 champions.
The rest of what it publishes -- home run leaders, no-hitters, rosters, game results, an archive -- is unusually complete for a league this size and lives on a site with no address of its own. A High Cheese league page puts the schedule, the standings and every roster at an address the league owns, so thirty-six seasons stop depending on a hosting product.
Seacoast MSBL in detail
- Fourteen games from May to September, at nine and half past eleven in the morning.
- Won-lost percentage, with head-to-head and inter-division records as tiebreakers.
- A game results page runs alongside the schedule and standings.
- A rosters section, and six clubs named in the league's own leader lists.
- Home run leaders and no-hitters, published on the front page.
- A contact page, a Facebook presence, and a President with disciplinary authority.
- Always looking for new talent, via the contact page or Facebook.
- Three grounds with street addresses: Keay Field, Rochester Babe Ruth and Landry Field.
- Wood bats only, metal cleats permitted, and adult attitudes must always prevail.
- The front page carries the champions, the leaders and the sponsorship ask.
- A photo gallery and an archives section, both in the main navigation.
- $350 for an outfield fence banner, and a $20,000 lifetime scoreboard on offer.
- Playoff games are nine innings and must be played to completion.
- Established 1990, in its thirty-sixth season, with an archives section.
- A President with suspension and expulsion powers, unnamed.
- Age, bats, cleats, game length and season length are all answered; the fee is not.
- A ten-part rulebook, revised April 2026, published in full as a page.
- May to September, fourteen games, then playoffs and a championship.
- Nothing is for sale; uniforms are the team's responsibility.
- Umpires judge safety, call games, and help reschedule the rainouts.
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