Two grounds carrying the week
The fixtures name East Hanover Township and Robert E. Yetter Memorial Field in Lower Allen Township as the venues for a full Sunday, and the club names point to the rest of the league's geography -- Chambersburg and Mont Alto down towards Maryland, Enola across the Susquehanna from Harrisburg, Lower Allen on the West Shore.
The league keeps a directions page on its host, which is how a team from Mont Alto finds a township field an hour up the road.
A ground attached to each game on a High Cheese schedule travels with the fixture into every player's phone, which for a league whose clubs are an hour apart is the difference between nine men and eight.
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.
- Each club lists its manager and his phone number; the league lists nobody.
- There is no registration page; a player rings a manager.
- 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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