Written as obituaries are written, for men still playing
The Hall of Fame is the best-written page in this directory. Its 2004 inaugural class runs to three long biographies; the 2005 class adds six more. A commissioner who began at Marblehead in 1979, founded a Swampscott club in 1985 and built a side that has contested seventeen championships and won ten. A power-hitting first baseman of the 1930s and 40s who came back in 1977 as general manager and fundraiser, and has a park grandstand and a school gymnasium named after him. A pitcher drafted in the 28th round by the Red Sox out of Peabody High in 1971 who threw six no-hitters in the league and once won both ends of a doubleheader in the championship finals, allowing three hits in fourteen innings. Another who led the nation in Division 3 with a 12-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio, signed with Detroit, pitched in the Cincinnati system and in Holland, and also played minor league hockey. An outfielder who signed with the Castel Franco Dragons in Italy's Veneto League in 1989 and retired as his club's all-time leader in hits, walks, runs and stolen bases. A commissioner of five years who is now the Essex County District Attorney.
Nobody else here writes about its own players like that. Team and league pages on High Cheese carry photographs and long-form pages alongside the statistics, so a career described this well has the numbers sitting under it.
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.
- A Fields and Directions page, and a grandstand named for a hall of famer.
- 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.
- 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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