They built the Green Monster in Franklin, Wisconsin
The Rock Sports Complex at Ballpark Commons is a set of major league replicas, each published with its dimensions. Giants Field copies AT&T Park at 318 to left, 374 to centre and a 290-foot right field porch. Phillies Field copies Citizens Bank at 330-360-327. Fenway Field copies Fenway at 299-327-280. Pirates Field copies PNC at 327-365-333. Brewers Field copies Miller Park and Cardinals Field copies Busch, both at 205 down the lines. Every one is regulation 60-90 with a synthetic turf infield and a Kentucky bluegrass outfield.
The league's own line is the point: from Fenway's green monster to AT&T's short left porch, you will immediately know you are playing on the real deal, just like the pros — built with the same drainage, irrigation, sod and root zone mix as most of the thirty major league stadiums. Nothing else in this directory comes close. High Cheese ties the ballpark, its dimensions and its map to the fixture itself, so a man knows on Tuesday that Thursday's game is in Fenway.
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 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.
- Who, when and where are answered exhaustively. What it costs is not.
- 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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