The fee is a calculation, not a number
Shasta explains its fees rather than stating them. They vary each season with the number of teams and scheduled games, but on a thirteen-man roster they generally work out at around thirteen dollars per game per player. As a not-for-profit, the league says it keeps player costs as low as possible while working to increase access to fields for practices and scrimmages.
Payment goes directly to team managers. Where that is not possible, PayPal is available to a league address, using friends and family and a bank account or balance -- because a card incurs a three to five per cent non-refundable service charge. Payments must carry the player's name, his team and the season. And the league warns plainly that a manager may add charges of his own for hats, jerseys and equipment on top of the league fee, so players should confirm the exact amount with him first.
New players attend a skills assessment; one was relocated indoors to a batting cage facility in Anderson because of weather.
That is the most transparent fee explanation in this directory. A High Cheese join page takes the registration and the fee at the league's own address and records what each player has paid against his roster spot, which is the part currently sitting in a manager's phone.
Shasta Baseball League in detail
- Founded in 2018 by five men, run as a not-for-profit, and it breaks for the summer on purpose.
- 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.
- 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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