New Jersey Baseball Leagues

Our record for the Amateur Baseball Association points at allstarteamstats.com, which is a statistics platform rather than a league. The name in our database is generic to the point of being unusable, and the link goes to a service.

That combination means this entry tells a reader nothing at all: no city we can trust, no governing body, no season. It is the weakest record in this directory and we would rather say so than dress it up.

If you run an association by this name in New Jersey, we would genuinely like to know what it is. As it stands we are carrying a name and a link to a scorekeeping product.

Glory Days MSBL was founded in 2002 out of Forked River, on the Jersey Shore in Ocean County.

The name is a Springsteen reference and there is no plausible reading in which it is not. Glory Days is a song about exactly the men this league is for, a former high school pitcher and a former ballplayer's wife sitting in a bar talking about who they used to be, and it is either the most self-aware league name in this directory or the least. Twenty-four years on, presumably nobody minds either way.

We could not extract the divisions or the fee. Forked River is pronounced with two syllables in the first word, which visitors get wrong immediately.

The New Jersey Amateur Baseball League claims the whole state in its name, which in New Jersey is a bolder claim than the size of the place suggests: the north looks to New York and the south to Philadelphia, and very little crosses the middle.

We hold five New Jersey listings and three of them are filed under Newark, including this one, which is more likely a data default than a description. A statewide league headquartered anywhere would still be fighting that north-south divide.

We could not extract divisions, fields or fees from the site. Send them and we will carry them.

Play at the Plate New Jersey keeps its presence on a Facebook profile created recently enough that its numeric identifier is among the highest in our records.

The name describes the single most contested moment in baseball, the one where a runner and a catcher arrive at the same place at the same time, and it is a strange and rather good thing to name a league after. It suggests either a league that likes the drama or one named by somebody who had that particular play in mind.

We cannot read the page. New Jersey has five listings and this is the newest of them.

South New Jersey MABL/MSBL is based in Cherry Hill, which is a Philadelphia suburb in everything but state, eight miles from Center City across the Delaware.

That geography is the whole point of a south Jersey league. Philadelphia has five listings in our records and every one of them is a bridge toll away, so a Camden County league is competing on convenience rather than on quality.

We could not read the divisions or the fee off the page. This is one of five New Jersey records and one of the two with a specific, believable location attached.