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The league names no fields and gives no addresses. The association keeps a statewide ballpark and team map and a ranked top hundred Minnesota ballparks.
Hutchinson, Litchfield and Buffalo are substantial towns; Loretto and Hamel are small enough to be surprising in a thirteen-club league.
High Cheese ties a ballpark, an address and a map to the game on the schedule.
North Star League in detail
- Thirteen clubs across three grades, including the Orphans, the Kernels and the Crows.
- Seventeen or eighteen league games each, in a thirteen-club competition.
- Buffalo 14-3 at the top, Montrose-Waverly 1-16 and minus 136 at the bottom.
- No results, and a Montrose-Waverly side minus 136 across thirty games.
- Thirteen clubs from fifteen towns, and one of them is the Orphans.
- Run differential from plus 63 to minus 136, a 199-run spread.
- No contact for the league or any of its thirteen clubs.
- No form, no fee, and three clubs that have won thirteen games between them.
- One Class A club, six Class B and six Class C, in one competition.
- Nothing specific to this league appears in the association's feed.
- No album or gallery.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- Thirteen clubs split three ways at the end of the season.
- No founding year, and two hyphens recording mergers nobody dated.
- No league officers named; the association publishes its own board.
- How good it is, answered thirteen times. Everything practical, not at all.
- Association documents and classification criteria, none of them this league's.
- Sixteen to eighteen league games played, and no dates published.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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