Photographs used as identification
The league keeps a Player Pics section that doubles as its identity check: type a few letters of a first and last name and find the player and his ID number. It also posts news photographs, including the Yaquis home run from game one of the championship series, published with the note that the focus is bad.
Using a photo archive as a roster verification tool is genuinely inventive and it is the sort of thing only a league that has run for years would build.
Team and league pages on High Cheese carry photos and push them into a feed the league reads, and a player profile carries his own picture, so the index and the album are one thing.
Aztec Baseball League in detail
- Thirty clubs in the Inland Empire, a twelve game season, and a league that publishes what it costs.
- Twelve games a club, and no fixture list, because the permits are not back.
- No table is published, though results and champions are.
- A full weekend published, including a 28-1 and four games that never got played.
- Eighteen players and one manager, verified against a photo ID, with a player ID number each.
- No batting or pitching figures, but every player has an ID number.
- One address, [email protected], and a Tuesday meeting anyone can attend.
- $1,500 a team, at least $750 before the first game, all of it before game five.
- The league keeps a fields page and is waiting on permits to be approved.
- A complete uniform, defined item by item, and a game that cannot be played without eighteen of them.
- Meeting notes, rule changes, weekend highlights and a championship photo.
- A sponsor letter is published for clubs to use.
- A championship series, and three champions crowned: Yaquis, Rangers and Cerveseros.
- A Previous Seasons section, a Previous Games archive, and champions named this year.
- No officers are named, though the league meets in person on Tuesdays.
- This league answers four of the five questions outright, which nothing else here does.
- League bylaws, a protest form, a minor release and a sponsor letter, all published.
- Twelve games, finishing before Thanksgiving, with Labor Day the only holiday off.
- No store, and a uniform rule that obliges every club to buy properly.
- No crew is named, and a protest form exists for when a call is disputed.
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