Respected in the record, absent from the site
Umpires appear twice in the league's own Hall of Fame citations: one inductee is credited with bringing a love of the game that added stability to the league and earned the respect of umpires, players, fans and opponents; another is described as a man who understood how baseball should be played and demanded nothing less from his players or the umpires.
That is a league whose institutional memory places officials alongside players, and which publishes no assignor, crew, rate or route to working games anywhere on its site. On High Cheese the crew attaches to the fixture, so an umpire is part of the record of the game he worked.
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.
- 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.
Compare