Rougarou, three times
The league runs two seasons a year and records the winner of each. Secret 9 took spring 2026. The Fifth Ward Weebies took fall 2025. The Rougarou took spring 2025, and spring 2024, and fall 2023 -- three titles in three years. The Blues took fall 2024.
The Rougarou's first, in fall 2023, is written up rather than listed: another season has come to a close here in New Orleans, and last week the Rougarou celebrated their first championship win before one final bout of rain drove the fans home and extinguished the fire. A splendid morning matchup, the league called it, after a period in which the Baseball Gods seemed not to want the season to end.
The postseason format is published: the top four teams, four playing one at one's home and three playing two at two's, with the winners meeting in a championship game at the higher seed.
Several championship posts carry a link reading listen to the broadcast.
A title recorded on a High Cheese league page keeps the bracket, the final and the winning roster attached to the season, so a third Rougarou championship reads as three seasons rather than three lines.
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.
- A sign-up form, a waiver and dues paid together, and a mission that names who is welcome.
- 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.
- 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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