Anyone who wants to play
The league keeps a Sign-Up section and a combined Sign Waiver / Pay Dues route, so the legal step and the money happen in one place.
Its statement of who may join is the most complete in this directory and worth reproducing: anyone who wants to play, regardless of background, skill level, age, ethnicity and national origins, gender and gender identity, sexuality, class, and religion.
It is co-ed by design rather than by exception -- its founding declaration was specifically that women were meant to play baseball, not softball -- and its manifesto names women first among those told the game was out of reach.
No fee amount is published.
A High Cheese join page states the dues beside the season they buy and takes the waiver in the same pass, which is what this league has already built at the league's own address.
The People's Baseball League in detail
- Co-ed, fast-pitch, wooden-bat baseball in New Orleans, open to anyone who wants to play.
- Sunday afternoons, two seasons a year, with makeup games arranged by the teams.
- Current standings and an all-time standings table, kept as separate pages.
- Weekly recaps written in the league's own voice, plus broadcasts.
- Ten clubs, named for the wards, streets and monsters of New Orleans.
- Run differential is used in the rules; no individual statistics are published.
- A contact section, a sign-up route and a donate page.
- It started at Lemann Playground at three o'clock on a Sunday.
- Version 3.1, amended by majority vote, with each team and the commissioner holding one vote.
- Games are broadcast and archived, and the league runs a podcast called Pitch Sequence.
- A social feed embedded on the about page, currently broken.
- A donate page rather than a sponsors page.
- Six championships on record, three of them to the Rougarou.
- A timeline that starts thousands of years ago and includes a night at Pal's Lounge.
- A commissioner with one vote, and managers with one each.
- Who can play, what kind of baseball, and what happens when a game ties.
- A rulebook published as a page and as a PDF, plus a waiver.
- Two seasons a year, with championships in June and December.
- Nothing is for sale; the league takes donations.
- An umpire-in-chief with the final call, and ejection powers written down.
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