A stated reason for existing
The league gives its founding year as 2011 and says why it was formed: to provide Berkshire County residents aged 20 and over, and 33 and over, an opportunity to play baseball.
Very few leagues in this directory state a founding year and almost none state a purpose. This one does both in a single sentence, and the residency clause in it is the whole identity of the thing.
No champions or past seasons are published. Every season played on High Cheese is kept as standings, box scores and rosters together, so fifteen years of a county league is a record rather than a memory.
Berkshire Adult Baseball League in detail
- Founded 2011 for Berkshire County residents, in a 20-and-over league and a 33-and-over one.
- Fourteen games played in the 20 League, and no fixture list published.
- The Millers are 13-0-1 and the Bandits are 0-14, in a six-team league.
- No results page, and a 13-0-1 record that raises a question the standings cannot answer.
- Twelve clubs named across two leagues, and no players published.
- No batting or pitching numbers are published.
- Two direct numbers: Jared Martin on 413-446-3071, Lou Orazio on 413-663-0741.
- $1,000 a team, $500 at the first meeting, the balance by April 1.
- No ballparks are named, though the club names give the towns away.
- Wood bats, seven innings, bat the whole roster, and eight men is enough.
- No news or announcements are published.
- No album or gallery.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- No postseason is described, in a league with an unbeaten club.
- A president, a COO and a board of six, all with phone numbers published.
- Four of five answered, which almost nothing here manages.
- A sportsmanship code with suspensions and ejections behind it.
- One date is published and it is a money deadline: April 1.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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