Counted, if not written up
Results reach the standings -- the run totals are exact, 182 and 68 for East Hanover, 73 and 169 for Chambersburg -- so every game is being entered by somebody. The league keeps both a results page and a scoreboard on its host.
What there is not is any account of a game: no line score, no pitcher, no note of who did what on a Sunday afternoon.
A score reported once on a High Cheese league page becomes the standings, the team's record and the player's line at the same moment, which is the rest of the job the run totals are already halfway through.
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.
- 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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