Announced by name, and attached to people
The league welcomed Halftime Wealth Management as a sponsor in a news item of its own, with a link to the firm — the sort of announcement that tells the next prospective backer they will actually be acknowledged. Its 2026 Hall of Fame post is headed inductees and their sponsors, so a business is being tied to a specific man's induction rather than to a banner.
A wealth manager named Halftime backing a league whose divisions start at 45 is a piece of matching nobody would improve on. High Cheese carries sponsor placement on league and team pages and against a league's own events, so a sponsor bought against an induction is visible on the page that records it.
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.
- Five inducted in 2026, before the all-star games, with classes going back to 2015.
- 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.