Listen to the broadcast
The league keeps an Audio section split in two: Broadcasts and Podcasts. Its championship announcements carry a link reading listen to the broadcast, so its finals are called and kept.
The podcast is named Pitch Sequence.
Alongside them run weekly recaps written in the league's own voice -- a Thanksgiving week recap that thanks the Baseball Gods and the disciples of baseball, and closes a bye week with the playoff picture coming into view.
Almost nobody in adult baseball broadcasts their games and fewer still keep the tape. This league does both, and writes about them afterwards.
A High Cheese league page gives each game a page with its score and lineups, so a broadcast has a permanent record to sit beside rather than being the only one.
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.
- 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.
- Who can play, what kind of baseball, and what happens when a game ties.
- 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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