The manager's job, in writing
The league sets out what a manager is responsible for and it is a real list: knowing the playing rules, the standing rules and the code of conduct; attending every managers' meeting; maintaining the team's online roster; entering the team's statistics; following league rules; being the primary point of contact for his team; and being responsible for its actions.
Failure on the roster, the stats, the fees or the waivers costs the team a forfeit and its playoff place.
One club is named on the league's front page in a player's own words -- the 45+ Athletics.
A High Cheese team page belongs to the club rather than the season and keeps its roster current from the registrations themselves, which removes most of what that list of manager duties is actually asking for.
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 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.
- Seven East Bay cities, and the league says it is always looking for more.
- 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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