Bylined by a Hall of Fame member
The league's news is written by Charles McCroskey, credited on every piece as Charles-HOF McCroskey.
The pieces themselves are substantial: the President's Cup history with twelve years of scores, the all-star series record back to 1998, the 2026 game announcement with roster allocations and derby entrants.
A league that gives its writer a byline and marks him as a Hall of Famer is one that treats writing the record as part of playing in it.
A league on High Cheese gets a wire where finals post themselves as books are finalized, so the person writing keeps writing the parts that need a person.
Central Ohio MABL in detail
- Founded 1996, ten clubs, mid-April to early August, and a championship over Labor Day weekend.
- Scores and schedule kept together, with a weather page beside them.
- Season standings and all-time standings, kept as two separate tables.
- Home run totals by player, and cup scores going back to 2015.
- Ten clubs, a player search, a team search, and all-star places allocated by standing.
- League leaders in hitting and pitching, and a team that fails to enter stats loses its all-star places.
- The league president, by email, plus Twitter and Facebook.
- A New Player Form, and a season you can plan around before you fill it in.
- A Complexes section, and Beavers Field in Lancaster named for the all-star game.
- The playoff format is published: best-of-three in every round.
- No album or gallery renders.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- An inter-league all-star game dating to 1998, with Columbus leading 14-13-1.
- Ten Cups, never a series lost, and a 164-71 record against the league across town.
- A league president, a Hall of Fame, and division champions who manage the all-star sides.
- Four of five answered, and the season dates are the best in the directory.
- A New Player Form, and a News Archive going back years.
- Mid-April to early August, playoffs from mid-August, the final over Labor Day weekend.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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