Ninety-three years
The West Haven Twilight League states its own age at the top of every page: amateur baseball since 1933, serving southern Connecticut.
Nothing else in this directory is close. A league that started the year Prohibition ended, that has run through the Depression, the Second World War and every decade since, and that is still playing.
Twilight is the clue to how. Twilight leagues were built for men who finished a shift and played in the last hours of daylight, and the name has outlived the working pattern that produced it.
Five clubs carry it today, and all five are named for the businesses that pay for them.
For a competition with ninety-three years behind it, the record is thin: a news feed, a store, a donor page and a handful of honour rolls. A High Cheese league page keeps the schedule, the standings and every roster at an address the league owns, so a league older than most professional franchises has somewhere to put its own history.
West Haven Twilight League in detail
- A schedule section, in a league named for when it plays.
- A standings section for five clubs.
- No result is published in the served text.
- Five clubs, every one named for its sponsor.
- A Gold Bat award implies batting records; none are published.
- Three social accounts and an Apply section.
- An Apply section, which is the right word for a ninety-three-year-old league.
- No ground is named.
- A rules section in the main navigation.
- A news feed on the front page, with a load-more control.
- No gallery is published in the served text.
- Five clubs named for sponsors, and donor tiers called Single, Double, Triple and Home Run.
- A Gold Bat recipients page, and an awards section beside it.
- Since 1933 — ninety-three years, and the longest run in this directory.
- A board of directors with a page of its own.
- Founded 1933, five clubs, southern Connecticut, apply to join.
- A rules section; nothing downloadable.
- No dates are published in the served text.
- A store, in a league whose teams are named for local businesses.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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