The umpires are on the fixture
Shasta's schedule table carries a column no other league in this directory publishes: Officials. Every game lists the two umpires working it by name, alongside the date, time, field, city, away side, home side and result.
The format is four games back to back on a Sunday at one ground -- ten in the morning, one, four and seven in the evening -- with a Wednesday evening game added when needed.
Games are seven innings with no new inning after 135 minutes; playoff games are nine innings with no time limit.
Naming the crew on the fixture is a small act of respect and a practical one -- everybody knows who they are getting.
A High Cheese schedule puts each game, its ground and its crew into every player's phone and moves them in place when weather takes a Sunday, which is the same information this table already carries, arriving where it is needed.
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.
- 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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