One man, and he answers in the first person
The league names Jonathan Krysa as its president and publishes his telephone number, (816) 547-3232, alongside two email addresses on the league's own domains. He is the person a new player writes to, the person a new manager writes to, and the person who quotes team fees over the phone.
Everything this league does well — the guaranteed game counts, the published umpire rates, the stat lines behind the awards — comes from one person keeping it that way, and that is also its limit. A claimed league on High Cheese answers the routine questions on the page, so the calls that reach the president are the ones worth his time.
Kansas City Amateur Baseball Association in detail
- Wood bat since 2008, three divisions, and a guaranteed number of games in each.
- Five start times, two days a week, six venues — and no fixture list.
- Records are quoted for every champion; no live table renders.
- Results with seven distinct status codes, down to suspended and forfeited by which side.
- Monarchs, Mavericks, Blue Wahoos, Blazers, Panthers, Black Sox, Athletics, Expos, Trash Pandas.
- MVP and Cy Young winners published with their complete lines — .513, 100 strikeouts, 1.31.
- Email the president your date of birth and playing history, and he mails every manager.
- Turf at Raytown until June, then five complexes across two states.
- Wood bat, two-hour limits, and a run rule that changes with the format.
- Champions, award winners and a 300th career win, stacked on the front page.
- Team photographs sit on the welcome page, embedded rather than published.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- An all-star game and playoffs in all three divisions, and a World Series title in 2021.
- Monarchs 26-0 in 2021, 24-2 in 2022, 29-3 in 2023 — and the runner-up named each time.
- A president, and no other office named.
- All five answered, with a price range and a guaranteed game count.
- An information page that does the work of a rulebook, a fee schedule and a prospectus.
- April 2 to September, Sundays and Thursdays only, holidays excluded.
- Uniform and hat run $25 to $50, paid to the manager.
- $70 for seven innings, $90 for nine — published to the dollar.
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