Answered by the manifesto and the rulebook
Who can play? Anyone -- adult, co-ed, and open regardless of background, skill level, age, ethnicity, national origin, gender and gender identity, sexuality, class and religion.
What kind of baseball? Recreational, fast-pitch, wooden bat, nine to a side, with umpires calling balls and strikes. Not softball.
When? Sunday afternoons, spring and fall.
What if a game ties? It must be resolved by a tiebreaker game or finished by the last day of the regular season -- and if two teams finish level for a playoff place, they play a one-game playoff rather than looking anything up.
What if we disagree about a rule? Managers and the commissioner vote, one each, majority rules.
What is not published is the dues. A High Cheese join page states them beside the season, on the same page as the waiver.
The People's Baseball League in detail
- Co-ed, fast-pitch, wooden-bat baseball in New Orleans, open to anyone who wants to play.
- Sunday afternoons, two seasons a year, with makeup games arranged by the teams.
- Current standings and an all-time standings table, kept as separate pages.
- Weekly recaps written in the league's own voice, plus broadcasts.
- Ten clubs, named for the wards, streets and monsters of New Orleans.
- Run differential is used in the rules; no individual statistics are published.
- A contact section, a sign-up route and a donate page.
- A sign-up form, a waiver and dues paid together, and a mission that names who is welcome.
- It started at Lemann Playground at three o'clock on a Sunday.
- Version 3.1, amended by majority vote, with each team and the commissioner holding one vote.
- Games are broadcast and archived, and the league runs a podcast called Pitch Sequence.
- A social feed embedded on the about page, currently broken.
- A donate page rather than a sponsors page.
- Six championships on record, three of them to the Rougarou.
- A timeline that starts thousands of years ago and includes a night at Pal's Lounge.
- A commissioner with one vote, and managers with one each.
- A rulebook published as a page and as a PDF, plus a waiver.
- Two seasons a year, with championships in June and December.
- Nothing is for sale; the league takes donations.
- An umpire-in-chief with the final call, and ejection powers written down.
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