A hundred and fifty dollars first
The money rules come before everything else in the rulebook. Uniforms are not ordered until deposits are paid. A player who has not paid or arranged a payment plan by the first game is immediately ineligible, and a player on a plan becomes ineligible the moment he misses a payment. A free agent must put down $150 before being added to any team.
New players who want to be drafted must attend a spring training event -- attendance is compulsory to enter the draft.
Free agency and releases have their own deadline: a player and a captain may part ways, but it must be declared before 31 January of the new season, after which the player may join whichever club will take him.
A join page that states the deposit, takes it, and drops the player into the pool the commissioner draws from is exactly what a High Cheese league page provides -- and it keeps the payment status against the roster, which is what the eligibility rules turn on.
Philadelphia Amateur Baseball League in detail
- This is not a beer league. This is not softball. Sundays, wood bats, and a real draft.
- Every game on a Sunday, three and a half hours, with the next game's start time as the clock.
- Divisional tables with clinching marks and five tiebreakers.
- Every team must keep the book, and not keeping it costs a club its awards.
- Sixteen players minimum, and a rule that lets a benched man leave with a refund.
- An official statkeeper, post-season awards, and no public numbers.
- Two league addresses — one general, one for the commissioner's business.
- Tarken and Edgley, with published ground rules and a groundskeeping rota.
- No professional pitchers, six innings of college pitching a season, and a fine for breaking someone else's bat.
- A golf outing, a Phillies game, and a newsletter to subscribe to.
- A photos section sits in the main navigation.
- The homepage notes outside coverage and names no sponsor.
- A divisional round, a bye for each division winner, and a best-of-three championship.
- A live draft with a lottery, a supplemental round, and a keeper pool for disbanded clubs.
- A commissioner and a co-commissioner, approving every trade and every fill-in.
- Can I pitch, will I play, and what happens if we only have eight?
- One rulebook of thirty-five numbered sections, published in full on the web.
- A year of deadlines: 31 January, spring training, week seven, the last game in June.
- Uniforms are league-ordered, and a trade means paying to change the name on the back.
- Umpires record the start time, sign the final score, and may inspect any bat.
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