Nineteen clubs in a state you can drive across in an hour
The RIMSBL runs divisions at 28, 40 and 50, with nineteen teams between them and games spread across twenty-nine grounds from Woonsocket down to Narragansett and out over the Massachusetts line into Fall River, Swansea and Seekonk.
Several clubs field sides in two divisions at once -- the Colt 45's, the Seadogs, the Braves and Strike FX Smokies all run a younger team and an older one -- which is how a small state keeps forty-year-olds and fifty-year-olds in the same organisation instead of losing them to separate leagues.
The league keeps standings, schedules, statistics, message boards, a rulebook, a documents section and a Hall of Fame, all on a rented platform behind a login prompt. A High Cheese league page puts the schedule, the standings and every roster at an address the league owns, which for a competition already this well organised is the same information landing somewhere a searching player can reach it.
Rhode Island MSBL in detail
- Weekend mornings and afternoons, weeknights at seven, across three divisions.
- Separate tables for the 28, 40 and 50 divisions.
- Results appear beside the fixtures as soon as they are played.
- Nineteen clubs, and a seasons column that turns the list into a history.
- A statistics section sits alongside the standings and schedule.
- A contact page and a Facebook page the league actively promotes.
- The platform offers Login and Register, and the league publishes no fee or route in.
- Twenty-nine grounds with full addresses, including Cardines Field and Brown's Murray Stadium.
- The league publishes an RIMSBL rulebook as its own menu item.
- One standing news item, about the Facebook page.
- The league asks members to post their photographs to Facebook.
- A sponsor page in the main menu, and one sponsor visible in a club's name.
- No postseason or champion is publicly published.
- A Hall of Fame in the main menu, and clubs going back fourteen seasons.
- Nobody is publicly named.
- Ages and grounds are answerable; cost, season length and how to join are not.
- A documents and forms section sits in the main menu.
- No season dates are published.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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