A short book that covers the arguments
Wood bats only. Seven-inning games. An unlimited batting order with a minimum of eight players. A mercy rule at a ten-run lead. And a strict sportsmanship code carrying suspensions and ejections.
Batting the entire roster is the rule that tells you what this league is for. Nobody sits. A man who drives in from Adams on a Sunday gets his at-bats whether he is any good or not, and the ten-run rule means the afternoon ends before it becomes cruel.
Eight players being enough to play is the other half of the same idea: the game happens.
High Cheese keeps a league's own rules beside its schedule, where a manager reads them rather than remembering them.
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.
- 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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