Six awards and a full all-star side
The league publishes its awards by season with the club against every name. A recent year gave the MVP and the Batting Champion to the same Kingston Night Owls hitter, the Cy Young to a Beverly Recs pitcher, Rookie of the Year to a North Shore Phillies infielder, and a shared Playoff MVP to two Night Owls.
Then it names a fourteen-man All League Team with each player's position and club — four pitchers, a catcher, and infielders and outfielders spread across Champions Pub, Beverly Recs, North Shore Phillies, Kingston Night Owls, Manchester Marlins and Rowley Nor'easters. An all-league side that big, published with positions, is a real honour in a twelve-team league. High Cheese builds and runs a bracket off the standings a season produced and keeps the champion and the award winners attached to the year.
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.
- 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.
- 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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