Somebody runs it, and it is a secret
The league's page lists nine clubs and not one person: no president, no secretary, no scheduler, no address. Somebody sets the schedule, settles protests and answers the phone in March when a new club wants in, and that person is not on the internet.
Which means the way in is a club, and the way to a club is knowing somebody. A claimed league on High Cheese has a contact, a join button and an inbox that reaches whoever is actually in charge, so the 13/60 stops losing the players who could not find a phone number.
13/60 League in detail
- Nine teams out of south-central Minnesota, sorted by letter instead of age.
- The league posts no schedule anyone can link to.
- Eight teams in the table, and two pages on the same site that do not agree.
- No results page. The standings are the only surviving evidence.
- No roster page. Who plays is a town matter.
- Wins, losses, run differential. That is the whole statistical record.
- No form, no posted fee, no deadline.
- No ballpark list, though the club names give the towns away.
- No local rulebook. The league plays the association handbook.
- The association feed runs hot all August and never once says Waseca.
- No album, no gallery, nothing visual at all.
- No sponsor page, though the money comes from somewhere.
- Where a 13/60 season points: the state tournament, bracketed by letter.
- No founding year, no pennant list, no 13/60 name on the honor rolls.
- No officers, no committee, nobody listed as running it.
- No FAQ, and the obvious questions are exactly the unanswered ones.
- The paperwork a club here deals with, all of it filed upstairs.
- No calendar, no posted season start, no posted end.
- Nothing for sale. There is no merchandise page.
- No crew listed. The forms that govern them are association forms.
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