Email, password, request access
The St. Louis Men's Baseball League's address does not open a website. It opens a login form served by a CGI script, and everything on it fits in one line: an email field, a password field, a link reading forgot your password, a remember me box, and a link reading request access.
That is all. No division, no club, no ground, no season, no fee, no name, no telephone number. The league's title in the page heading is the only fact it publishes about itself.
Request access is the interesting phrase. It is not register or sign up -- it is a petition to be let in, which means somebody approves each one, and which means a man in St. Louis who wants to play baseball has to ask permission before he can find out what he is asking to join.
Behind that lock there is presumably a full league: divisions, schedules, standings, statistics, decades of records. St. Louis is a serious baseball city. None of it exists for anyone outside.
A High Cheese league page renders the schedule, the standings and every roster as pages at an address the league owns, readable before anybody logs in -- which is the difference between a members' system and a league that can be found.
St. Louis MSBL in detail
- No fixture is published.
- No table is published.
- No result is published.
- No club is named.
- No statistics are published.
- No name, address or number is published — only a password reset.
- Request access — and that is the only route published.
- No ground is named.
- No rulebook is published.
- Nothing is published.
- No gallery is published.
- No sponsor is named.
- No postseason is published.
- No date of any kind is published.
- Nobody is named.
- Nothing whatsoever is answerable from outside.
- Nothing is downloadable.
- No date is published.
- Nothing is for sale publicly.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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