Named on the shirt, and in the standings
The league keeps a sponsor page in its top-level navigation. Its contents are not publicly readable, but one sponsorship is impossible to miss: two of the nineteen clubs are called Strike FX Smokies, in the 28 and 40 divisions, carrying a backer's name into the standings and the results for eight and seven seasons respectively.
That is the most durable form of sponsorship there is, and it only works if the standings are visible.
A High Cheese league page puts a sponsor beside the fixture list and the table that already carries their name, at an address a search can reach.
Rhode Island MSBL in detail
- Three age divisions, nineteen clubs, and twenty-nine ballparks in the smallest state in the union.
- 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.
- 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.