Named, numbered, and with the stat sheet empty
The clubs across the three divisions include the KC Monarchs, the Mavericks, the Blue Wahoos, the Blazers, the Panthers, the Black Sox, the KC Athletics, the Expos, the Rockies, the Cardinals and the Trash Pandas. The KC Monarchs name comes straight out of the city's Negro Leagues history and is the best-chosen club name in this directory.
Each club page carries its roster with numbers and opens a twenty-eight column offensive sheet, and the sheet reads .000 across the board — the names are entered, the baseball is not. Rosters on High Cheese update as men sign and follow a player between clubs and seasons, so a roster page fills its own statistics as the games are scored.
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.
- MVP and Cy Young winners published with their complete lines — .513, 100 strikeouts, 1.31.
- Jonathan Krysa, League President, on (816) 547-3232 and two league addresses.
- 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.