Two states, one Sunday
The grounds named in the fixtures are Tinsley Park, which carries most of the schedule in Shreveport, and Elysian Fields High School across the border in Texas -- the town the Rangers are named for, about an hour west.
A league drawing from North Louisiana, East Texas and Southern Arkansas is a league where an away game means a state line, and where the field on the fixture matters more than in most.
A High Cheese schedule attaches the ground to each game, so a player checking his phone on a Sunday morning knows which state he is driving to.
Red River Adult Baseball League in detail
- Real wood bats, real cleats, real baseball — and nobody who wants to play gets turned away.
- Weekend games across two states, with the 27+ division playing doubleheaders.
- Three teams inside a game and a half, with ties broken on runs allowed.
- Results feed the standings; no game is written up.
- Six clubs across two divisions, and a roster with three Goswicks and two Martinsons on it.
- Twenty statistical categories offered by the host, across seventeen seasons of archives.
- A league address and a named president who also plays.
- $240 a season, no payment at registration, and a March draft workout for new players.
- No current college players at any level, and three years removed from professional ball.
- A newsletter subscription and one long standing post about how to join.
- No gallery is published.
- No sponsor is named.
- A fall league is archived for 2011; no champion is named in any year.
- Thirty-three years, two names, and a division structure that has changed almost every season.
- A league president and six team managers.
- Cost, length, eligibility and whether you are good enough are all answered outright.
- Two online forms — summer registration and an interested player enquiry.
- A draft workout in March, a season from late April to the end of August.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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