A table that has barely begun
Fairmont Martins 1-0 in the league and 11-5 overall, plus 3. Fox Lake Foxes 0-1 and 8-10, minus 3. Windom Pirates, Jackson Bulls, Lakefield Horned Frogs and Heron Lake Lakers are all 0-0 in the league.
So exactly one league fixture has been played, Fairmont beating Fox Lake by three runs, and the other four clubs have not started.
The overall records tell a completely different story. Windom are 20-2. Jackson are 12-7. Heron Lake are 0-16.
A league where the table is empty and the clubs have played between sixteen and twenty-two games elsewhere is a competition that sits late in the summer, after everything else.
Standings on High Cheese come out of the games themselves, so a league that starts in August is not indistinguishable from one that has not started at all.
First Nite League in detail
- Six clubs around the lakes of southwestern Minnesota, and a name spelled the old way.
- One league fixture played, and full seasons of up to twenty-two games behind it.
- One league result, and a Heron Lake side that has lost sixteen straight elsewhere.
- Six clubs, and one of them is called the Horned Frogs.
- Two run differentials exist, and they are plus 3 and minus 3.
- No contact for the league or any of its six clubs.
- No form, no fee, and a club that has lost sixteen in a row.
- No ballparks named, in six towns around the lakes.
- Class C Region 10 for all six, so the league is level.
- Nothing specific to this league appears in the association's feed.
- No album or gallery.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- All six are Class C, so they arrive at the state tournament together.
- No founding year, and a name spelled the way signs used to be.
- No league officers named; the association publishes its own board.
- Which clubs, answered. Whether the league has started, barely.
- Association documents and classification criteria, none of them this league's.
- One league game played, and no dates published for the rest.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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