Millers, Bananas, Gremlins, Moneymakers
The 20 League fields G.B. Millers, Greylock, Berkshire Bandits, Berkshire Thunder and Pittsfield Patriots. The 33 League fields Tunnel City, Moneymakers, Gremlins, P. Lake Monsters, P. Pirates and Bananas. No rosters are published for any of them.
The league's own rule batting the entire order means every club knows precisely who turned up, week after week, and none of it is written down anywhere public.
Rosters on High Cheese update as people sign and follow a player between clubs and seasons, which in a league built on county residency matters: people move between these twelve teams for years.
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.
- 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.
- 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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