Divided, for eighteen
The league keeps divisional standings, which an eighteen-team competition spread from Bangor to Gorham needs -- nobody is playing a full round robin across that map in ten weeks.
The standings, the scores, the stats and the schedule each get their own page on the league's site, and all of them exist for the current season only.
Standings that rebuild themselves from the results and stay at their own address year after year are what a High Cheese league page produces, so 2026's table is still readable when 2027's replaces it on the front page.
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.
- 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.
- 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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