Five frames from Waterville
The league keeps a photo gallery in its navigation, and the reproduced newspaper feature brings five press photographs with it, credited to Michael G. Seamans: Ken Walsh turning a double play as Bethel's Josh Aylward slides, Kris Targett making contact, Bethel's Danny Whitney oversliding second as Chris Hart looks to tag him.
Those are properly captioned photographs of named men in a named game at Colby College, which is more than most league galleries contain.
A photograph attached to the season and the club on a High Cheese league page is findable by the men in it. In a gallery it is one of several hundred.
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.
- Seventeen home grounds — high schools, a college, an American Legion post and a town field.
- 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.
- 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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