Two doors per division, fourteen in all
Every division page carries three links: Information, Team Application and Player Application. A man bringing a whole club and a man arriving alone go through different forms, at whichever of the seven levels suits him. All players must submit a waiver, published for the current season.
Splitting the team route from the player route at every level — rather than one general enquiry form — is what lets a league place nine hundred men correctly, and it means a 63-year-old is never reading a page written for the 18+. What none of those forms can show him is which clubs are actually short. A High Cheese free agent pool runs on the league's own page all season and shows every manager in every division who is available.
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.
- 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.
- 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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