Available at the office, on paper
The city keeps a free agent list for men without a team and for clubs needing a few more. To get on it you email or telephone your name, age, work phone, home or mobile number, skill level, positions played and the area of Los Angeles you want to play in. To read it, you must be a registered team manager and you must go in person to the Valley Sports Office on Laurelgrove Avenue. Players can only be added through the eighth week of the season.
So the list exists, it is maintained, and a manager in San Pedro has to drive to North Hollywood to look at it. That single detail is the clearest argument in this directory for what a free agent pool should be: on High Cheese it lives on the league's own page, visible to every manager in every division at once, updating as men sign, with no counter and no drive.
Los Angeles Rec Baseball in detail
- A municipal league: two seasons a year, four skill divisions, and games that travel the city.
- Twelve or thirteen Sunday games a season, published per division as files.
- Tables kept per division per season, published as separate downloads.
- Results published per division per season, with a blank scorecard supplied.
- A scorecard is supplied to every club; no player figure is published.
- Valley Sports Office, 6911 Laurelgrove Ave, North Hollywood — phone, fax and email.
- $910 a team, itemised: twelve or thirteen games, thirty-six baseballs, awards, and a bond back.
- A traveling league: the Valley, East LA, Griffith Park, West LA and South Central.
- Four skill divisions, 18 and over, supplemental rules published as a download.
- Registration dates only.
- A Baseball Photographs link among the downloads.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- Awards for first and second, paid for inside the team fee.
- A Department of Parks written into the city's first charter in 1889.
- John Knight as Baseball Director, Daniel Hernandez as Recreation Coordinator.
- All five answered, including the one nobody else answers: what it really costs.
- Nine downloads: registration, fact sheet, supplemental rules, protest form, scorecard, code of conduct.
- Two seasons a year: register in late January, play from mid-April.
- Thirty-six baseballs come with the fee; nothing else is sold.
- $100 per game per team, paid on the field before first pitch.
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