The number, the deposit and the date
A team fee is $1,000. Five hundred is due at the first meeting and the balance must be paid in full by April 1. The league also runs a fall registration.
Publishing the amount, the deposit and the deadline is a rarity here, and pairing it with a residency requirement makes clear this is a county league that knows exactly who it is for.
What it does not publish is a route for an individual player without a club. High Cheese gives a league a join page carrying these terms, and a free agent pool so a Berkshire County resident with no team has somewhere to put his name.
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.
- 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.
- Established 2011, with a founding purpose written down.
- 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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