Idaho Baseball Leagues

Boise MSBL carries twenty-two teams. Its site, boisemensbaseball.com, resolves to a HomeTeamsOnline error page: not a 403, not a missing page, but the platform's own message saying a connection failed while trying to reach the requested page.

Twenty-two teams is a substantial league for a metro of Boise's size, and it has grown alongside a city that has been one of the fastest-expanding in the country for a decade. A great many of those players did not grow up in Idaho.

The error is on the host's side rather than the league's, and it may well have cleared by the time you read this. We hold a second Boise listing, Boise NABA, whose address points at the same hosting platform under a different account name.

Boise NABA is listed on the same hosting platform as Boise MSBL, and the account identifier embedded in its address is BOISEMSBL, which is the other league's name.

That is either a shared administrator running two affiliations from one account, or one league that changed sanctioning bodies and kept the old login, or a record in our directory that has attached the wrong URL to the wrong name. All three happen, and the address alone cannot tell them apart.

Both Boise entries currently reach the platform's connection error rather than a league page. If you play in Boise, one message would sort out which of these is real, whether both are, and which sanctioning body is actually running your Sunday.

The South East Idaho Adult Baseball League runs out of Pocatello and lives on Facebook, behind the login prompt that stops every directory.

Pocatello is a long way from anywhere. Boise is a four-hour drive west, Salt Lake City three hours south, and in between is a great deal of country with not many people in it. A league in southeast Idaho is not competing with alternatives; it is either the only organised adult baseball within reach or it does not happen.

That makes its findability matter more than most, not less. A page a search engine cannot index is a problem when the nearest substitute is in another state. Organisers: send us anything and we will carry it.