Seventy-two leaderboards, none of them filled
Every one of the league's twelve division-seasons offers individual batting, fielding and pitching leaders and the three team equivalents. None carries an entry.
The league's own policies require full names and uniform numbers on every lineup card, verified by the umpire, so the raw material for a leaderboard is being collected at every game across six divisions. Statistics on High Cheese come out of the box scores as they are entered and follow a man between clubs, divisions and seasons, so twenty years of Long Island baseball becomes one player's record rather than seventy-two empty tables.
Long Island MSBL/MABL in detail
- Six divisions from 18+ to 60+, forty-five ballparks, and an office with a phone number.
- Sunday mornings from 8:30, six divisions at once, across the whole island.
- USA Biscuits 20-0 in the 18+, and twelve tables across two seasons.
- USA Biscuits 18 Williston Park 2, and results filed by division and club.
- Biscuits, Blue Claws, Screaming Eagles, Wolfpack, Tides — named for towns from Massapequa to Glen Cove.
- One Huntington Quad, Suite 3NO7, Melville, and 631-753-6725.
- Six divisions, a league office and a telephone number — and no published route in.
- Forty-five venues with addresses, from Adelphi to Zahn's Park, half of them turf.
- A rulebook that loosens as the divisions get older, and a use-it-or-lose-it runner rule.
- Three headlines: the store, the policies, and the rules highlights.
- No album or gallery.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- Six divisions with tiebreakers published, and no bracket on the site.
- Two seasons on file across six divisions, and nothing before them.
- A league office at One Huntington Quad, a telephone number, and no contact table entries.
- Where and when are answered in enormous detail. What it costs is not.
- Lineup cards with full names and numbers, unique jerseys, league balls, and ID at the field.
- Sunday mornings and weeknights, with weeknight games cut to seven innings.
- A league store hosted by a uniform supplier in Melville.
- $270 a game if you forfeit, and two forfeits means expulsion.
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