An 18+ wood bat club in New Jersey
The Manalapan Machine are an adult baseball club in the New Jersey Amateur Baseball League, which describes itself as the largest 18+ amateur baseball league in the state. The club plays an eighteen game spring season on Sundays from April through July, with wood bats.
Manalapan is a Monmouth County township of about forty thousand, and the Battle of Monmouth was fought partly on ground inside it in June 1778, in heat severe enough to kill men on both sides.
The league sorts its clubs into tiers by talent rather than geography: Premier, Intermediate, Intermediate AAA, Amateur, Amateur AAA, a Legends bracket at 35+ and 45+, and a midweek division. It runs an All Star Game, a Home Run Derby and a double elimination playoff bracket with a wild card.
A hundred and fifty-one clubs share one league website and not one of them has a page on it, which is the gap a High Cheese address closes for the Manalapan Machine.
Manalapan Machine in detail
- Eighteen Sunday games, April through July.
- Standings are kept per division on the league site.
- Results feed the league's per-division stat pages.
- Rosters are held in the league's registration system.
- Full batting and pitching lines, published by division.
- Contact runs through the league office.
- Teams and free agents register with the league.
- Fields are assigned by the league across New Jersey.
- Wood bat, 18+, league rules throughout.
- League news, not club news.
- An All Star Game, a Home Run Derby and a double elimination playoff.
- Past seasons survive in the league's own archive.
- No club officers published.
- Registration forms and league documents.
- Eighteen Sundays and a playoff run.
- No club store.
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