A league where the grades do not match
Northfield and Red Wing are Class B in District 2. Cannon Falls is Class C in Region 5. All three play each other in this league.
The Minnesota Baseball Association's classification criteria decide what each grade requires, and mixing them inside one competition is a decision the towns made because the alternative is driving further for a game.
Cannon Falls being 22-14 overall while carrying the lower grade suggests the mismatch runs the other way from what the letters imply.
The league publishes no rules of its own.
High Cheese keeps a league's own agreements beside its schedule, which is where an arrangement like this one currently is not written down.
Classic Cannon Valley National League in detail
- Three clubs, three different classifications, and a four-game league season so far.
- Four league games each, against overall seasons of thirty-six, twenty-nine and seventeen.
- Red Wing 4-0, Northfield 0-4, and a Cannon Falls side 22-14 overall on a negative differential.
- No results published, and a Cannon Falls differential of minus 11 across thirty-six games.
- Bears, Knights, Aces, from three towns along the river.
- Run differential only, and two of the three clubs are negative.
- No contact for the league or any of its three clubs.
- No form, no fee, and three clubs that decide for themselves.
- No ballparks named, though the association maps every diamond in the state.
- Nothing specific to this league appears in the association's feed.
- No album or gallery.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- Two Class B clubs and one Class C, arriving at the state tournament in different brackets.
- No founding year, and state archives kept a floor above.
- No league officers named; the association publishes its own board.
- Which clubs and what grade, answered. Nothing practical.
- Association documents and classification criteria, none of them this league's.
- Four league games played by each club, and no dates published.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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