Posts by Men's Senior Baseball League

By Steve LaMontia, Director of Communications The first weekend of the 2020 MSBL Kickoff Classic in sunny Las Vegas is a wrap!  Champions were crowned in 18+, 35+, 55+ and 65+ divisions with play in 25+, 45+, 50+, 60+ and 70+ divisions beginning this coming Saturday, March 14th. The weather was in the 70’s and…

By Steve LaMontia, Director of Communications The Chicago North Cubs stamped quite an impressive message at this past year’s MSBL World Series as they captured both the 55+ and 60+ Cactus division championships! They recently held a combined team ring ceremony in Chicago as hosted by team manager Alden Stiefel. Alden was good enough to…

Submitted by Alan Van Ness, Sacramento MSBL League President    (photos courtesy of Jane Burkitt) Tim Burkitt pitched his 400th MSBL win last week while playing for the Royals at the new Sacramento MSBL Army Depot Fields, our new SMSBL home. Tim has 20+ national and regional rings, numerous SMSBL Championships and is one of…

By Steve LaMontia, MSBL Director of Communications Those of you born after 1968 may have heard of Bob Gibson but didn’t have the privilege of witnessing the season that truly changed baseball.  Known as the ‘year of the pitcher’, which is a gross understatement, there was such concern that the hitters were overmatched that 1968…

Submitted by Ben Koehler, San Antonio MSBL One of the longtime core members of the San Antonio Bombers, #21 Freddie Douglas, passed away recently.  I spent a couple years with the Bombers and can assure you that Freddie was a well-known and well-liked league favorite.  The guys always have stories about playing in tournaments in…

By Steve LaMontia, Director of Communications Dear MSBL/MABL Players, Marucci is pleased to provide you with a special assortment of products for your arsenal and as an added benefit, we are being given the chance to get some other new, Marucci products for some unbelievable deals. Here is how you take advantage of our MSBL/MABL…

By Rich Rosenblum, tournament Director Without a doubt, the 2020 MSBL Caribbean Championship featured the most competitive and exciting baseball in 26 years!  More about that later in this article. The real story started one month prior to the tournament, when a 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the southwest corner of Puerto Rico with devastating effects…

By Steve LaMontia, Director of Communications Pat Kelly is a long-standing member of the Sacramento Men’s Senior Baseball League, where he began playing in 1993. He is also an annual participant at the MSBL World Series in Arizona and the MSBL Vegas tourneys as a member of the perennial powerhouses Sacramento Tribe and Sacramento Majic, with an occasional stint with the Solons. In January of…

Submitted by Jennifer Davies, special to MSBL Approximately 16 million Americans play baseball. With so many people running the bases in ballparks across the U.S., there’s tons of personalities represented by the sport’s many players. Baseball is a diverse sport whose positions run the spectrum of personality types. While one’s personality by no means guarantees success at a designated…