Leaders and the whole book
The league keeps two separate statistical pages for 2026 -- stat leaders and full stats -- alongside divisional standings and final scores, which for a free Google Sites page maintained by volunteers across eighteen teams is a serious amount of upkeep.
The league's own reporting shows what those numbers would say if anyone read them across seasons. Kyle Kennison, the all-time strikeout leader at the University of Southern Maine, played for West Paris. Rex Turner sits in the top five for career home runs at the University of Maine and plays for Winthrop. Matt Kinney spent five years in the major leagues and played for Central Maine. Devern Hansack won the 2007 World Series with the Red Sox and played for the Farmington Hounds.
Career leaderboards that build themselves out of scored games are standard on a High Cheese league page, with a page for each player underneath -- which is how an eighteen-team league with that much talent through it ends up with a career record rather than a fresh spreadsheet every May.
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.
- 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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