Two names on the front page
The league names Chico's Oils and Guardian Sports Bx as sponsored advertisers on its homepage, each with a link out, and directs anyone wanting ad sponsorship to its bulletin board page for terms.
For a 501(c)(3) that runs equipment drives, a softball fundraiser and a field-improvement programme, two named advertisers is a thin visible base, and the league's own fundraising history suggests the money mostly comes from members rather than businesses.
Sponsors get seen when they are on the page a player actually opens, which is the schedule. A High Cheese league page puts a sponsor beside the fixture list and the standings rather than in a row of logos at the bottom of a homepage.
NYC Metro Baseball League in detail
- A 501(c)(3) adult league of 24-plus teams across five divisions, playing weekend doubleheaders in all five boroughs.
- Weekend doubleheaders, April to August and September to November, with no public fixture list.
- Five divisions, competitive balance reviewed each season, and no table published.
- The league has a GameChanger manager on its board and no results on its site.
- Eight expansion clubs since 2017, each with a founding season and a best finish on record.
- The league keeps a Victors' Vault for record holders and publishes no numbers.
- One league email, one published phone line, and a board of eight.
- Free agent registration costs $4.88 and buys priority for placement, tryouts and discounted winter work.
- Eighteen fields across the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn.
- The NABA rulebook, a league rules-and-regulations document, and a form for proposing changes.
- A newsletter, a news page and a podcast whose archive stops in 2015.
- A photo gallery, a video gallery, and a Hall of Champions organised by division.
- Playoffs in both seasons, and a travel side that plays NABA's Atlantic City weekends.
- Eight teams in April 2006, thirty within a few years, and four distinct administrations since.
- Eight officers, every one of whom played or managed in the league first.
- Ages, divisions, season length, game day and playoff format are all answered on the record.
- Rules and regulations, the NABA rulebook, a rules proposal form and a privacy policy.
- Winter workouts January to March, spring ball from April, fall ball from September.
- The league sells nothing of its own; only its national body has a shop.
- Officiated by the New Rochelle Umpires Association, founded 2021, and recruiting.
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