Named, dated, and photographed in a line
The 2026 Hall of Fame class — Gary Prugh, Mike Frassinelli, Steve Smull, Jeff White and Chris Kross — was inducted at 9:30am on August 1, before the league's all-star games at the Emerald Playground Association, 7748 Penn St, Slatington. The photograph of the day is captioned left to right and carries the class year against each man, so earlier inductees stand in it too: a 2015 inductee and two from 2018, alongside the vice president and the 18/45 commissioner.
Captioning a group photograph with the year each man went in turns a picture into a record. The images themselves do not render for a plain reader; the caption does. Team and league pages on High Cheese carry photos and push them into a feed the whole league reads, so an induction reaches the men who were on a field somewhere else that morning.
Lehigh Valley MABL/MSBL in detail
- A registered charity running over-18, over-45 and over-60 baseball in the Lehigh Valley.
- Three divisions playing somewhere, and not one fixture published.
- A 2026 Stats and Standings link on the front page, and nothing behind it.
- No results are published.
- No clubs are named.
- Six leader categories inherited from the old site, none of them carrying a name.
- [email protected] for the Board of Directors, plus a Facebook page.
- A free agent route on the old site, and two registration forms on the new one for money.
- Emerald Playground Association, 7748 Penn St, Slatington — the one ground named.
- Separate rulebooks for over-18 and for over-45 and over-60.
- A working newsroom: inductees, a new sponsor, a donation drive, and two national profiles.
- A wealth manager called Halftime, and sponsors named against Hall of Fame inductees.
- All-star games on August 1 at Slatington, with the Hall of Fame inducted first.
- A Prior Champions section, a Hall of Fame with classes back to 2015, and a site that just moved.
- Joe Vallely as president, Greg Stokes as vice president, Vinnie Eiden on 18 and 45.
- Who and how to ask are answered. When, where and what it costs are not.
- Two rulebooks, bylaws, Hall of Fame criteria and a code of conduct reminder.
- Hall of Fame and all-star games August 1, golf outing and awards dinner October 11.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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