Shawnee Youth Baseball Case Study 2004-2007
Shawnee Youth Baseball Case Study 2004–2007
From local league operations and tournament infrastructure to Memorial mission, Grand Slam City, Braves continuity, economic evidence and long-term historical preservation.
Four years. One evolving operating system.
The 2004–2007 archive documents a progression from league and tournament administration into a mature USSSA operating environment and then into a memorial-centered community baseball mission.
Core Case-Study Thesis
2004 establishes the infrastructure. 2005 shows the system operating at maturity. 2006 redirects that machinery toward remembrance. 2007 demonstrates continuity under a changing public-facing structure.
The surviving records determine the claim.
This study uses a source-bounded method. It does not silently turn incomplete evidence into complete history.
Documented
Information printed or encoded directly in surviving primary-source material.
Calculated
Arithmetic derived only from documented source values.
Version-Dependent
Preliminary, revised and final files can represent different operational states.
Interpretive
Modern explanation of how multiple independent records fit together.
Unknown
Facts the surviving archive does not establish remain unknown rather than estimated.
Privacy Boundary
Sensitive roster, family-contact and transaction records can inform research without being publicly republished.
Each year preserves a different layer of the Shawnee baseball system.
Building the Operating System
The deepest surviving archive documents league registration and schedules, tournament recruitment, sanctioning, brackets, gate policy, officials, trophy expenses, hotel-impact tracking and original website infrastructure.
- 249 assigned files
- 20 documented local-league team slots
- $4 adult / $1 student gate
- Hotel-survey architecture already measuring visitor behavior
A Mature Tournament Operation
The archive shows the tournament system end-to-end: promotion, registration, bracket construction, live revisions, Sunday/final-stage competition, results and post-event accounting.
- 212 source files
- At least 25 local-league team slots
- Six advertised tournament weekends
- $340 documented June 3 total to USSSA
1st Annual Brian Crawford Memorial
The existing tournament machinery becomes the platform for remembrance. The Memorial is documented across a broad age range and multiple tournament stages.
- 58 assigned files
- 13 curated public bracket PDFs
- Eight documented age levels
- REMEMBER #13 preserved in the contemporaneous record
Grand Slam City & the 2nd Annual Memorial
A thinner archive preserves Shawnee Youth Baseball & Softball / Grand Slam City Sports Complex, published tournament economics, a long tournament calendar, Memorial continuity and Braves-Crawford 7U history.
- 9 assigned files
- 2nd Annual Brian Crawford Memorial
- 7U Oklahoma Braves-Crawford
- Grand Slam City becomes part of the surviving public-facing identity
The same system changes purpose over time.
| Dimension | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archive Character | Deep operating baseline | Mature workflow | Memorial-centered | Thin continuation / transition |
| League Evidence | Strong | Strong | Limited in public package | Not complete |
| Revision Evidence | Strong | Very strong | Working + Sunday Memorial records | Limited |
| Economics | Gate, sanction, officials, ledgers | Fees, refunds, sanction/remittance | Rules/refunds; no unsupported totals | Entry/gate prices |
| Digital System | Original site architecture | Web entry + working records | Bracket system supports Memorial | Grand Slam City public-facing site |
| Memorial Role | Pre-Memorial baseline | Operational maturity | 1st Annual; #13 | 2nd Annual; continuity |
| Braves Thread | Multiple labels | 14U Oklahoma Braves second-place result | 6U BRAVES in Memorial | Braves-Crawford 7U |
Price, cost, revenue and community impact are different evidence categories.
The four-year archive documents fees and operating costs in multiple places, but it does not justify combining every published price into a single revenue number.
Entry Fees
Team-entry fees vary by age, year and event. A listed fee establishes policy, not total collections.
Gate Admission
$4 adult / $1 student appears repeatedly, while 2007 also documents $2 senior admission.
USSSA Fees
Sanction and event-remittance records are separate from team-entry fees and gate admission.
Officials
2004 includes surviving umpire-cost evidence, creating an early operational benchmark.
Hotel Impact
2004 website tools already attempted to capture room-use and hotel-selection behavior.
Unproven Totals
Complete annual gate, concession and economic-impact totals are not established by these archives alone.
An existing baseball system becomes a memorial tradition.
The evidence supports a clear progression: pre-Memorial operating infrastructure in 2004–2005, the 1st Annual Brian Crawford Memorial in 2006, and the 2nd Annual Memorial in 2007.
2004
League, tournament, digital and economic infrastructure are already functioning.
2005
The tournament system is mature enough to preserve live revisions, results and accounting.
2006
The 1st Annual Brian Crawford Memorial enters the contemporaneous record with REMEMBER #13.
2007
The 2nd Annual Memorial establishes continuity while Grand Slam City appears in the surviving public-facing infrastructure.
This archive preserves how the system worked—not only who won.
Together, the records preserve governance, registration, tournament recruitment, classification, schedules, brackets, live revisions, gate and refund rules, sanctioning, officials, facility use, lodging, web infrastructure, Braves history and the emergence of a memorial mission.
Governance
Registration, board participation, team structure and sanctioning appear in the surviving administrative record.
Operations
Schedules, working brackets, Sunday brackets, facilities and tournament rules document live administration.
Community
Hotel-use tracking, multi-community fields and Memorial participation show an impact beyond the playing field.
Digital History
The archive preserves an early local web-based tournament environment before modern consolidated platforms.
Braves History
Braves-branded participation recurs, but labels remain exact unless documentary continuity is established.
Preservation
Preliminary, revised and final files remain part of the archive because version changes are themselves evidence.
Read the complete 2004–2007 analysis.
Shawnee Youth Baseball Case Study 2004–2007
The professional PDF brings together the four annual archives, comparative findings, economic evidence, digital infrastructure, Memorial progression, Braves history, evidentiary limits and preservation recommendations.
More than four baseball seasons.
The 2004–2007 record preserves an operating system, a tournament economy, a digital administration model, a recurring Braves thread and the emergence of the Brian Crawford Memorial tradition. The strongest interpretation is evolutionary—not a single frozen story, but a system changing over time.