Including one named after a man in its own hall of fame
The league keeps a Fields and Directions page under Resources. Its Hall of Fame supplies one venue by name and by reason: the historic Seaside Park Grandstand in Marblehead, named in honour of a former Marblehead player and general manager whose work between 1977 and 1994 the league credits with rejuvenating semi-pro baseball in the town.
A grandstand named after somebody in your own hall of fame is the kind of thing only a league with roots in the nineteenth century has. Twelve clubs spread from Lynn to Kingston is a fifty-mile league, so directions matter. High Cheese ties the ballpark, the address and the map to the fixture itself, so a club travelling into New Hampshire knows what it is driving to.
North Shore Baseball League in detail
- Twelve teams from Lynn to Kingston, New Hampshire, in a league older than most of baseball.
- A schedule and results page for each of the ten clubs, plus a league-wide view.
- Standings given top billing, first item in the navigation and first button on the page.
- Results kept per club, feeding nine statistics pages and three champion columns.
- Recs, Night Owls, Seasiders, A's, Phillies, Storm, Tides, Champions, Nor'Easter and Sox.
- Nine statistics pages — batting, pitching, fielding, leaders, all players, and rookies.
- A prospect form, a payment portal, and a login called 400 Hitter.
- A Prospect Form for players, and a Find A Player page for managers.
- By Laws and a Player Conduct policy, shaped over decades by its own executives.
- A League News page and a Social Media page, kept under Resources.
- Full biographies, not name lists — and the careers in them are extraordinary.
- No sponsors page — but the champions list has been carrying a pub's name for years.
- MVP, Cy Young, Batting Champion, Rookie of the Year, Playoff MVP and a fourteen-man All League Team.
- Champion, runner-up and regular season winner, listed together for every year.
- A board page, and a Hall of Fame that names four commissioners across fifty years.
- Standard, size, season and geography all answered in one paragraph.
- By Laws, a Player Conduct policy, and a set of Covid rules kept on the record.
- Twenty-four games from late May, with playoffs in August.
- Nothing is for sale.
- Named twice in the Hall of Fame, and nowhere else.
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