A form that sends you somewhere else
There is no season to join. What the league left behind is its free agent form and an email address, with an instruction to use either one to find baseball in the Philly, Bux-Mont or South Jersey area.
Turning your own intake form into a referral service for your competitors, after you have stopped playing, is a small and genuinely generous act. It also has no way of knowing which of those leagues is short of a catcher this week. A High Cheese free agent pool is regional rather than per-league: a man puts his name in once and every manager within driving distance can see him, whichever competition folds.
Liberty Bell Men's Baseball League in detail
- A Philadelphia league that has closed — and left the door open for its players.
- Sixteen seasons of fixtures, ending in August 2024.
- Dirt Dawgs 21-2 in the last season, Quaker City Comets 1-20.
- Results to the last week of the last season, including games against Bux-Mont clubs.
- Dirt Dawgs, Conshy Marlins, Philadelphia Red Sox, Padres, Lions and Quaker City Comets.
- A Cy Young write-up with ERA, WHIP, strikeout rate and a three-game championship series.
- A commissioner emeritus, an address on Passyunk Ave., and an email for referrals.
- An address on Passyunk Ave., and no ballpark named.
- No rulebook is published.
- Award announcements, an All-League archive, and a closing notice above them all.
- Award posts built around images that no longer render.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- A three-game final in 2024, and the Marlins beat the 21-2 top seed to repeat.
- Twelve seasons on file, 2013 to 2024, with post-seasons kept separately.
- One name, one title: Commissioner Emeritus.
- The only current answer is where to go instead.
- An All-League Teams archive back to 2012, still being assembled when the league closed.
- Summers ending in early August, with a post-season after.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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