Protests on paper
The league lists no umpires and names no assignor. What it publishes is a protest form, which is the other half of officiating: a written route for a club that thinks a game went wrong.
Between that, the ejection clause in the uniform rule and the ID checks, this is a league that has thought hard about disputes.
High Cheese assigns umpires off the same schedule the clubs already read, so a protest has a game, a crew and a date attached to it.
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.
- Player Pics is a searchable index, and there is a championship home run in it, slightly blurred.
- 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.
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