Nine pages, including one just for rookies
The league keeps statistics as a whole section rather than a page: Batting, Pitching and Fielding; Batting Leaders and Pitching Leaders; then All Players Batting, All Players Pitching and All Players Fielding; and, separately, Rookie Stats.
Splitting leaders from the full field, and then giving first-year players their own board, is a level of statistical care almost nobody in this directory attempts — it means a rookie is measured against other rookies rather than against men who have been in the league fifteen years. Statistics on High Cheese come out of the box scores as they are entered and follow a player between clubs and seasons, so nine separate views are nine cuts of one record rather than nine pages to maintain.
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.
- 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.
- 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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