Written by one man, all season
The front page of this league is a stack of bulletins signed by its president, and read in sequence they are the most honest account of running an adult league in this directory. Rain that had never before happened in June. A promise of fifteen to eighteen games and a running count of who has reached it. Games relocated one at a time to four different grounds across four weeknights. A note that the next forty-five days are in flux.
There is also this, which is its own kind of record: in the past two weeks the web development team has experienced issues with the content servers, which has prevented them from updating any content on the site -- we are changing servers, and I request your patience.
The league also keeps yearbooks as end-of-year reports and a calendar of events.
A bulletin board is a broadcast to everyone about something that affects twenty people. A High Cheese league page sends the change to the players in the game that moved and keeps the season's record as pages, so the president's writing is about the baseball rather than about the schedule.
San Antonio MSBL in detail
- Real hardball in five age divisions, in its fourth decade, on quality fields it says it earned.
- A schedule rebuilt monthly, in red, around rain, high school playoffs and stadium lights.
- Scores are phoned in, standings are published on a Tuesday, and managers must check their own record.
- Scores are telephoned in at the weekend and appear as standings on Tuesday.
- Teams are identified by number in the schedule, and managers are asked to stop them forfeiting.
- Games played is the only figure the league tracks publicly, and it decides the season.
- A league number for calling in scores, and a president who signs everything.
- Tryouts once a year, in February, and you pay to play.
- Four main grounds carrying the season, including a university, an air force base and a stadium.
- Standard baseball for the 45s, and a substantially different game for the 60s.
- No gallery is published.
- No sponsor is named.
- Top four in each division, and an All-Star team chosen by the players themselves.
- Thirty-two-plus years, counted by the league itself.
- A president, and a managers' meeting that functions as the board.
- Divisions, season length and tryout timing are answered; the fee is not.
- League rules, league policy, league forms and a set of yearbooks.
- Tryouts in February, ball from mid-March, Phoenix in October, and a managers' meeting in January.
- Nothing is for sale, but the uniform gets its own instruction.
- Umpires take lineups at the plate meeting and hold the clock.
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