Cleveland Spiders

Cleveland Spiders Roster

A published roster with positions, ages and schools.

Seventeen to sixty-three

The Cleveland Spiders publish a roster with jersey numbers, positions, ages, bats and throws, school and experience level. The ages on it run from seventeen to sixty-three.

Forty-six years between the youngest and the oldest man on this bench. It is the widest span in the Minnesota set by a distance, and the sixty-three-year-old is three years past the ceiling the league wrote into its own name.

That is the whole case for town ball in one line. A high school junior and a man in his sixties, same club, same nine innings, in a town of seven hundred that could not field a side any other way.

The roster stays where Cleveland Spiders put it. Republishing a list of named people with their ages and schools attached is not something a directory gets to decide for a club. Several of them are minors.

Cleveland Spiders hand their roster to a platform that decides how it looks; High Cheese hands that decision back to Cleveland.

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