Seven clubs, three pages each
Every club gets its own roster, statistics and schedule: East York Bulldogs, Kendal Eagles, Leaside Leafs, Northumberland Jacks, Newmarket Hawks, Ajax Spartans and Thornhill Reds. Some carry their own external sites beside the league page. The bylaws add that the league's statistician is paid an annual fee per club that covers roster approval and processing, player profiles and a photograph of every rostered player for the website.
Building a roster page with a portrait of every man in a Senior AAA league is a real commitment, and it is one person doing it for seven clubs. Rosters on High Cheese update as players sign and follow a man between clubs and seasons, so the profile the bylaws already pay for maintains itself.
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.
- 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 full constitution and bylaws, published in the top corner of every page.
- 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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