A column nobody fills
Every row of the league's schedule carries an Umpires column beside the venue, and every one of them is blank, across both divisions and the whole season. The tournament rulebook covers ejections and forfeits, so officials are plainly working these games.
Somebody is umpiring two nights a week across twenty-two fields and none of them are named anywhere. On High Cheese the crew attaches to the fixture, so a column like that fills as assignments are made and an umpire sees his week where the clubs see theirs.
Huntsville MSBL in detail
- Two divisions across Huntsville, Madison and Decatur, twenty games each, ending in double elimination.
- Every game with a start time, an end time, a venue and a status, plus an iCal feed.
- Dirtbags 16-0-1 at the top, points and runs against as the only tiebreak.
- Every result, filterable by club and division, with forfeits marked separately.
- Dirtbags, Braves, Rippers, Bandits, Trash Pandas, Mudcats, Cubs, Indians and Mayhem.
- Twenty-eight columns per club, individual leader boards in six categories, and no numbers.
- Philip Ellis, League President, on 256.714.2828 — the one office published.
- A signed online waiver before anything, and a president who will help you start a club.
- Twenty-two venues across three towns, with a red-amber-green availability board.
- Three rulebooks — a general one, one for the 25+ and one for the 40+.
- A tournament notice, a season preview — and a banner still advertising 2022.
- No album or gallery.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- A tournament with published pool and seeding rules, and a toteboard tracking runs against.
- No founding year, but a growth curve the league writes down every January.
- A president, and a page built for a board that has one row in it.
- Who, where, when and how to join are all answered. Only the fee is missing.
- Player contracts, division rulebooks, tournament forms, and pre- and post-game procedures for one field.
- Sundays and one weeknight, twenty games, with Saturdays held for rainouts.
- Nothing is for sale.
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