One afternoon, two games
The whole league plays on Sunday: Chambersburg at East Hanover at one o'clock and again at half past three, Enola at Lower Allen on the same clock at Robert E. Yetter Memorial Field. Two grounds, four games, five clubs.
With five teams, a doubleheader is not a convenience -- it is the only way to build a season worth eighteen games out of a summer of Sundays.
A High Cheese schedule puts both ends of the doubleheader and the field into every player's phone, and moves them in place when weather takes the afternoon out, which in a Sunday-only league costs a team two games rather than one.
Pennsylvania Mid-State MSBL in detail
- Five clubs around Harrisburg playing Sunday doubleheaders, with seventeen years of seasons on the record.
- 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.
- 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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