It stops in June, deliberately
The Shasta Baseball League was founded in mid-2018 by Chad Johnson, Tyler Spencer, Tom Barto, Tommy Sipes and Kyle Gregory, and provides community-based recreational baseball for men 18 and over across Shasta County. It is independent but coordinates with the cities of Shasta Lake, Anderson and Redding, and works alongside the local little leagues and the Redding Colt 45s.
Its calendar contains a decision most leagues never make: spring runs mid-March to early June, fall runs mid-August to early November, and the league breaks from mid-June to mid-August to accommodate summer travel ball and family and recreational activities. It gives up the best two months of the year so that its players' children can play, and says so.
Each season is ten to fifteen regular season games -- seven innings with no new inning after 135 minutes -- then two playoff games at nine innings with no time limit, then a championship game.
Everything this league publishes is unusually complete, and all of it is on a single hand-built page. A High Cheese league page puts the schedule, the standings and every roster at an address the league owns, so eight years of franchise records get pages rather than paragraphs.
Shasta Baseball League in detail
- Four games a Sunday at one field, with the umpires named on every line.
- Records are kept twice — what happened, and what the standings say.
- Every result sits in the schedule table, in the column beside the umpires.
- Every club, every season, every name change and every championship, active and inactive.
- Team records are kept exhaustively; individual statistics are not published.
- A PO box, a telephone number, and two addresses at the league's own domain.
- About thirteen dollars a game, paid to your manager, with the arithmetic explained.
- Four grounds across three cities, with Wynne Price carrying most of the season.
- Seven innings, 135 minutes, nine-inning playoffs, and a published rulebook.
- An attention banner at the top of the page, used for real changes.
- No gallery is published.
- An ongoing partnership with a service club, and coordination with three little leagues.
- Two playoff games at nine innings with no time limit, then a championship.
- Founded mid-2018 by five named men, with sixteen seasons on record.
- A director and a three-man board, all named.
- Cost, season, game length, fields and why there is no summer baseball.
- A player consent form, required to play, and a rules and regulations document.
- Two seasons and one deliberate gap: no baseball between mid-June and mid-August.
- Hats and jerseys are a team expense, added by the manager on top of league fees.
- Named on every game in the schedule — the only league here that does it.
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