Four of five, in unusual depth
Who can play: seven divisions from 18+ to 70+, each described in its own paragraph with its standard and its style of play. When: mid-April to September, with a named night per division and eight published start times from 9:00am to 7:45pm. Where: The Rock Sports Complex at Ballpark Commons in Franklin, on seven major league replica fields with their dimensions published. How to join: a team application or a player application per division, plus a waiver.
What it costs appears nowhere, for any of the seven levels. A claimed league on High Cheese answers all five beside a live schedule, standings and roster per club — which for a league already selling Fenway's dimensions is the one line left to write.
Milwaukee/Rock MSBL in detail
- Sixty-plus teams, nine hundred players, seven age divisions, one complex.
- Eight start times published, and not one fixture.
- Seven divisions of sixty-plus clubs, and no table published.
- No result is published, in any of seven divisions.
- Over sixty clubs across seven divisions, and not one of them named.
- No batting or pitching figure is published for any of nine hundred players.
- A field status hotline on 414-998-0303, and a weather page.
- A team application and a separate player application, for every one of seven divisions.
- Seven major league replicas — Fenway, AT&T, Citizens Bank, PNC, Miller Park, Busch.
- Seven brackets, each with its own standard, its own night and its own written pitch.
- A mailing list, and no published notices.
- An Image Gallery in the main navigation, alongside the replica field pages.
- Brought to you by Miller Lite, with the fields themselves individually sponsored.
- A tournament programme running April to July, and the MSBL World Series behind it.
- Two Milwaukee leagues merged in 2013, and a 70+ division added since.
- A commercial operation with a careers page, and no league officer named.
- A peanut free facility, no seeds, no gum, no carry-ins, no dogs.
- Mid-April to September, with the oldest divisions playing at one in the afternoon.
- Concessions and lodging pages; no merchandise.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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