Ring somebody
No fee, deadline, tryout or sign-up form appears anywhere on the league's pages. The route in is to find the manager of one of the five clubs and telephone him.
That works in a league this size and it caps the league at this size, because the only players who find it are the ones who already know somebody in it.
A join page with a fee on it and a free agent pool underneath, at the league's own address, is what a High Cheese league page adds -- and in a five-team league with two clubs at 3-14 and 5-13, players are the thing most needed.
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.
- 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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