Fourteen Sundays
The season typically begins in early June and runs through early September, on Sundays, with first-half doubleheaders generally starting around 10:00 AM and the second half and playoffs using expanded single-game formats. Specific schedules are posted before the season begins.
A single-day league is easy to describe and easy to lose track of, since one rained-out Sunday moves everything behind it. A High Cheese calendar carries the whole season, playoffs included, and subscribes to a player's phone, so a moved game finds him rather than the other way round.
Eugene MSBL in detail
- Formed 1994, eight teams, wood bats and real uniforms, Sundays in the Willamette Valley.
- Sundays, June to early September, filterable by team and field — and unreadable without a browser.
- Games, wins, losses, ties, points, for and against — headers only.
- A results page with every filter and no results.
- Cardinals, Cubs, Dux, Giants, Heavyweights, Phillies, Red Sox, Rough Riders and Western Bacon Burgers.
- No player figures are published.
- (541) 753-1639, an email link, and league operations run in-house.
- A prospective player form, $220–$250, and a league that starts new teams when enough people ask.
- Seven diamonds with street addresses, from Bailey Hill Road to Cottage Grove.
- Wood bats only, 25 and over, seven-inning doubleheaders then nine-inning singles.
- No news or announcements are published.
- No album or gallery.
- Sponsors are wanted; none are named.
- Full playoffs featuring all eight teams, with paid umpires.
- Thirty-two seasons, formed in 1994, six years after the national body.
- An administration is referred to; nobody is named.
- All five answered on one page: who, where, when, what it costs, and how to get in.
- No forms, waiver or rulebook are published.
- Nothing is for sale.
- Paid umpires for division series and playoff games, and dues that cover the cost.
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