Basin Street Overflow and the Rougarou
The league fields Basin Street Overflow, the Bayou St. John Blues, the Beef Sliders, the Crete Street Riot, the Fifth Ward Weebies, the Gentilly Giants, the Pelicans Baseball Club, the Rougarou, Secret 9 and the Super Sundaes.
There is no other set of team names like it. Basin Street and Bayou St. John and Crete Street and Gentilly and the Fifth Ward are the city itself. The Rougarou is the werewolf of Louisiana folklore. The Pelicans carry the name of the 1887 club the league's own timeline records. And Beef Sliders and Super Sundaes are what happens when a league founded in a bar names its own teams.
Each has its own page in the league's navigation.
A High Cheese team page belongs to the club rather than the season, so the Rougarou keep one address across three championships and every roster that won them.
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.
- 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.
- 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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