One morning, two ceremonies
The league runs all-star games at the Emerald Playground Association in Slatington, and puts its Hall of Fame induction immediately before them — 9:30am on August 1, with the whole membership already coming.
Attaching the induction to the one day of the year every club turns up is the only sensible way to fill a room, and it means five men are honoured in front of the league rather than at a dinner twenty people attend. No result, roster or format is published for the games themselves. High Cheese carries a league's events, entries and results on the same page as its season, so an all-star game leaves a record as well as a photograph.
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.
- A wealth manager called Halftime, and sponsors named against Hall of Fame inductees.
- 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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