Seven cities, an hour wide
Games are generally played in Livermore, Dublin, San Leandro, Martinez, Benicia, El Cerrito and Pittsburg -- an arc running from the Tri-Valley up through the northern East Bay to the Delta.
The league says it plays on quality city and high school fields around the Bay Area and that it is always looking for new fields to rent, which is the permanent condition of any league this size.
Its own description sets the boundary: games played within an hour's radius.
A High Cheese schedule attaches the ground to each game and carries it into every player's phone, which for a 68-year-old drawn from Livermore to Benicia is the difference between a game and a drive.
Tri-Valley MSBL in detail
- Six divisions from 18 to 72-and-over, thirty years in the East Bay, twenty-three national titles.
- Saturdays for the older divisions, Sundays for the younger, three hours a game.
- Schedules, stats and standings share a separate site.
- Results feed a stats program managers are required to keep current.
- Managers maintain their own online rosters, on pain of forfeit.
- Managers must enter batting and pitching stats, and failing to costs the team its playoffs.
- A league email, a telephone number, a contact form and four named officers.
- $250 to $300 a player, a hundred more for the uniform, and a waiver with no exceptions.
- Wood or wood-composite bats, specified down to the barrel, and no league-supplied equipment.
- A news section, and a player quote doing most of the recruiting.
- A fields gallery with a view-all link; no game photographs.
- No sponsor is named.
- A tournament champions page of its own, and officers who have played Cooperstown.
- Started 1992, reorganised in 2019, and twenty-three national championships.
- Four officers, each introduced with a biography they wrote themselves.
- The most complete FAQ in this directory: times, fields, fees, bats, waivers and playing time.
- By-laws, league rules and an e-waiver sent by the manager.
- A sixteen-game season plus playoffs, on weekends split by division.
- Uniforms cost about a hundred dollars and are not sold by the league.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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