Top Baseball Towns in Cheshire County, NH
Ranked on championships won since 2000 — high school state titles and Little League district, section and state titles counted together, with recent wins weighted more heavily. 8 towns have won something.
Fitzwilliam leads Cheshire County, NH, scoring 2.12 almost entirely on high school titles, though Gilsum is close behind on 2.12. 8 towns have won something since 2000.
The top 8 in Cheshire County, NH are Fitzwilliam, Gilsum, Richmond, Roxbury, Swanzey, Troy, Jaffrey and Keene.
Size is doing a lot of work here. Roxbury is in the top ten on a population of 225, while Keene has 23,036 to draw on — roughly 102 times as many people. That is why the tables below are also split into population bands: a town should be measured against places its own size before it is measured against a city.
Recency matters in this table — a title's weight halves every 12 years, so the standings drift on their own every season. Fitzwilliam, Gilsum, Richmond and Roxbury have won something in the last two seasons, which is why they sit where they do.
Fitzwilliam, Gilsum and Richmond share credit with neighbouring towns for a regional high school. A regional's championship is split evenly between every town it serves rather than going to the town the building happens to sit in.
One caveat worth reading before you argue with the order. The youth half of this score is Little League only, because Little League is the only organisation that publishes a championship archive — every district, section and state champion back to the 1950s. Cal Ripken and Babe Ruth publish nothing below the World Series. 3 towns in Cheshire County, NH run Cal Ripken or Babe Ruth ball with no Little League program at all, and they score zero youth points here no matter how much they win. Towns that run both lose the Cal Ripken half the same way. If your league has a record we're missing, tell us and we'll add it.
| # | Town | Score | Population | HS titles | LL state | LL district | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fitzwilliam NH Cheshire County | 2.12 | 2,483 | 1 ⌗ | — | — | Monadnock Regional High School |
| 2 | Gilsum NH Cheshire County | 2.12 | 786 | 1 ⌗ | — | — | Monadnock Regional High School |
| 3 | Richmond NH Cheshire County | 2.12 | 1,239 | 1 ⌗ | — | — | Monadnock Regional High School |
| 4 | Roxbury NH Cheshire County | 2.12 | 225 | 1 ⌗ | — | — | Monadnock Regional High School |
| 5 | Swanzey NH Cheshire County | 2.12 | 7,463 | 1 ⌗ | — | — | Monadnock Regional High School |
| 6 | Troy NH Cheshire County | 2.12 | 2,198 | 1 ⌗ | — | — | Monadnock Regional High School |
| 7 | Jaffrey NH Cheshire County | 1.42 | 5,549 | 1 | — | — | Conant High School |
| 8 | Keene NH Cheshire County | 1.12 | 23,036 | 1 | — | — | Keene High School |
By town size
A championship out of a town of 6,000 is a different achievement from the same title in a city of 600,000. Same scoring, ranked against places of the same size.
How this is scored
- High school state championship — 3 points
- Little League state title — 3 points
- Little League sectional title — 2 points
- Little League district title — 1 point
Only titles since 2000 count, each one's weight halves every 12 years, private-school titles count for 0.75 of a public one, and a regional school's championship is split between the towns it serves.
Full method, sources and what the rankings can't see →By county in New Hampshire
Counties with enough towns on the board to rank. Smaller counties are folded into their state list rather than given a page of three rows.