Eleven articles and a set of bylaws
The GTBL publishes its Official Constitution and Bylaws, updated for the 2023 season, and links to it from the header of every page. It sets out the league's name and affiliation, its objectives, how membership is granted and lost, when meetings are held, who the executive officers are and what each of them must do, and a disciplinary code for players and another for managers and coaches. The bylaws cover fees, bonds, roster approval and player signings.
Putting a constitution where a visitor lands, rather than behind a members' login, is a statement about how a league expects to be held to account. High Cheese keeps a league's documents beside its schedule and against its rosters, so a bylaw about signings sits one click from the roster it governs.
Greater Toronto Baseball League in detail
- Senior AAA baseball across seven Ontario clubs, aiming at the National Championships every year.
- A month calendar per club, 7:30 first pitch, each game marked As Scheduled.
- East York 11-3-3 on 25 points, and a table with last ten and run differential in it.
- East York 9 Thornhill 8, Newmarket 11 Kendal 3, and a Latest Scores block on the front page.
- Bulldogs, Eagles, Leafs, Jacks, Hawks, Spartans and Reds — each with roster, stats and schedule.
- Individual batting and pitching by club, with seasons selectable back to 2004.
- Five named officers with addresses, and new players sent to the team coaches.
- Clubs apply in person at the AGM; players sign an OBA card and go through their coach.
- Park availability decides who gets in, and not one diamond is named.
- A disciplinary code with no appeal on a first ejection, and a ban on poaching signed players.
- A written recap every week, and somebody who can actually write them.
- A photograph of every rostered player is paid for in the bylaws — and Facebook Live too.
- Funded by fees and bonds, with no sponsor named.
- The Ontario Elimination Tournament, the Hap Walters, and a league championship of its own.
- Individual seasons on file from 2004, with a two-year gap where the world stopped.
- Five elected offices, one currently vacant, and every holder named on the contact page.
- Three of five answered, and the two that are missing are the ones a new player asks.
- A January annual meeting, dues by July 1, and a wrap-up within sixty days of the final.
- Nothing is for sale.
- An Umpire in Chief who is also the scheduler, and a per-club fee for the booking.
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