Where each town plays
The league publishes a home field for nearly every club: Manson Field for Bangor, the Field of Dreams for Bethel, Lawrence High School for Central Maine, Greely High for the Gorham Gashouse Gorillas, Hippach Field for the Hounds, Varnum Field for the Kennebec Sturgeons, Wiscasset High for Lincoln County, American Legion Post 202 for the Mid-Coast Yard Goats, Colby College and Winslow High for the Mid-Maine River Pigs, Monmouth Academy for the Moose, the Waldoboro Recreation Complex for Pen Bay, Hosmer Park for Rumford, Oak Hill High for Sabattus, Mount Ararat Middle School for Topsham, Leavitt Area High for Turner, Lewiston High for Twin City and Kents Hill for Winthrop.
Colby College also hosts the league's annual midseason round robin, which brings the whole competition to one campus for a day.
The geography is the point and also the problem: Bangor to Gorham is more than two hours. A High Cheese schedule attaches the ground to each game so a two-hour Saturday drive goes to the right diamond, and a round robin at Colby reaches every one of the eighteen rosters at once.
Pine Tree Baseball League in detail
- Eighteen Maine towns, wood bats, and players from eighteen to over sixty on the same field.
- Late May to early August, one game a week, plus a midseason round robin at Colby.
- Divisional standings are published for the season.
- Final scores for the season are published, with Facebook carrying them first.
- Eighteen clubs, and some of the best names in American amateur baseball.
- Stat leaders and full statistics are published for the current season.
- A contact page, a team managers list, and Facebook for everything else.
- There is no sign-up form; you find a team manager.
- Official league rules have their own page, and wood is the rule everyone knows.
- The league's best writing is somebody else's — a 2017 newspaper feature it reproduces in full.
- A photo gallery, plus newspaper photographs from a game at Colby.
- No sponsor is named.
- A playoff bracket every August, and a midseason tournament at Colby College.
- Six titles on the record, including back-to-back doubles for Winthrop and Bethel.
- A president who plays second base, and a managers list.
- How old, how good, and whether a fifty-six-year-old can still do this.
- An official rules page and a PTL archive.
- Late May to early August, with a round robin in the middle.
- Nothing is for sale.
- The league keeps an umpires page in its navigation.
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