Funded by people, not banners
The league runs a Donate section in its main navigation and names no commercial sponsor anywhere.
For a competition whose stated purpose is to make baseball available to anyone regardless of class, funding by donation rather than by advertising is the consistent choice.
Its team names carry streets and wards rather than businesses.
A High Cheese league page keeps a donation route beside the fixture list and the broadcasts, which is where the people who would give are already listening.
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.
- 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.