A rule change worth a television crew
The league does not publish a current rulebook. What it publishes is the most consequential rule decision in its history: in 1973 it introduced the designated hitter to amateur baseball, and CBS television in New York sent a crew to cover it.
That was the year after the American League adopted it. An amateur city league moving that fast, and being treated as news for doing so, says what the Park Loop meant to baseball at the time.
High Cheese keeps a league's own rules beside its schedule, so the next decision like that is readable by everybody it applies to.
Boston Park League in detail
- Founded 1929 and, by its own account, the oldest amateur baseball league in the United States.
- Schedules and scores share one section, and neither renders.
- A standings section is kept, and its table does not render.
- Results are kept with the schedule and do not render.
- Two champion clubs named, and no rosters published.
- Statistics open in a separate window, and historical all-stars and records are kept.
- A contact page, an officers page, Facebook, X and email links.
- A prospective player sign-up, and a Find A Player service for managers.
- The league keeps a Field Directions page, which is the right name for it.
- A Latest News section, a blog, and a page of poetry.
- A View Photos section, including the 2022 Hall of Fame Dinner.
- The Yawkey Foundation, and a page called Our Friends.
- TJO Sports in 2025, the Extra Innings Braves in 2024.
- Ted Williams and Mark McGwire hit home runs here. A governor and a mayor pitched against each other.
- A published officers page, and a vice president who has been in the Dark Knight Rises.
- Who to play for and how to be found are both answered. Cost and dates are not.
- Historical records, award winners and all-stars, kept as their own sections.
- Two dated events beyond the season: a Hall of Fame Dinner and a golf tournament.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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