Nothing to look at between games
The league runs seven age divisions containing over sixty teams from mid-April to September. No standings table appears anywhere on the public site, for any division or season.
Sixty clubs playing five months produce seven races, and a man in the 45+ has no way to see whether his side is chasing anything. Standings on High Cheese come out of the games themselves as scores are entered and sit in plain text on the league's own page, so seven divisional tables update from the act of recording a result.
Milwaukee/Rock MSBL in detail
- Sixty-plus teams, nine hundred players, seven age divisions, one complex.
- Eight start times published, and not one fixture.
- 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.
- 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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