Five managers, no office
Contact in this league runs through the clubs. Each team page names its manager with a telephone number beside it -- Tyler Shuff for Chambersburg, and one for each of the other four. We have not reproduced the digits here; they are on the league's own pages.
No commissioner, president or league officer is named anywhere, and the league's own contact page carries nothing.
The league does run a text and email alert list, which is the one thing it has that reaches everybody at once. A High Cheese league page gives the league its own front door with the roster, the schedule and the join form behind it, so a player looking for a team is not cold-calling five managers in turn.
Pennsylvania Mid-State MSBL in detail
- Five clubs around Harrisburg playing Sunday doubleheaders, with seventeen years of seasons on the record.
- Doubleheaders every Sunday at one and half past three.
- Two teams tied at 14-4 and a hundred-run gap to the bottom of the table.
- Results feed the standings; the league keeps a scoreboard page for them.
- Full rosters published by name, with jersey numbers where the league has them.
- Twenty statistical categories available, and a games-played column reading zero.
- There is no registration page; a player rings a manager.
- East Hanover Township and the Robert E. Yetter Memorial Field in Lower Allen.
- No rulebook is published; the doubleheader format is the one structural fact.
- A news page, and an alert list players sign up to by text and email.
- A team photograph captioned with every man in it, front row and back.
- A sponsors page exists in the menu and names nobody publicly.
- Playoff brackets are archived for six seasons and no champion is named.
- Seventeen seasons of archives showing a league that has been three shapes.
- Nobody is named above club level.
- Where and when are answered by the fixtures; everything else is not.
- A forms page sits in the menu.
- An eighteen-game season of Sundays, running into August.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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