Pictures are Ready

All the teams and individual photos and the action photos are on the website www.glossyfinish.com



I encourage you to order soon. GlossyFinish is also offering a promotion, make an order over $32 by 11/3 and you will receive a free $12 photo bag tag.


3 Teams did not make it on Saturday, T3, T2 and the Astros. You will most likely do them at your next game.

Pictures Are Now at THUNDERBOLT

This weekend's pictures will now be at Thunderbolt in order to eliminate any chance of a rainout. Please arrive at your teams time. If you really have a hardship please let me know.

Astros and 3t (Todd Froats) will not have pictures on Saturday. If you are on one of these teams yoo will most likely do pictures at your game next week.

Team 4T I have asked your Manager to move to 1pm due to the 2 hardships, but please confirm with your Manager.

Board Meeting Summary

Present: Mike Collins, Bruce Anderson, Jerry Purdue, Ken Cuyler. Guest from GlossyFinish.com Photograghy.

New Board members are now all current managers. We also added Connie Wolfe as the new Treasurer.

Season Update: We reviewed some thoughts on Fall umpiring. We are doing fine but need better communication with scheduling for games. In Majors we should avoid parents from one team umpiring games due to conflicts.

Rules: 3 new Mnor league rules have been implemented: 1. A grounder that gets thru and rolls forever is a ground rule double. A fly that hits the outfield grass (umps discretion) is a ball in play with no restrictions. 2. One steal home in each inning. IF a second player attempts to steal and is called out the player is out. Only upon reaching home safely will the umpire return the player to third. 3. 5 Rins per inning with no additional runs in the event more do score on the last play. This rule removed end the inning at the end of the lineup rule.

Pictures were discussed. Schedule has been posted to the site. GlossyFinish.com will provide sponsor plaques to our Team sponsors for free.

Clinics were discussed. We wanted to do some more clinics this year but no one thought the interest was there. We did say that we need to schedule weekday practices in Spring with games on Saturdays so the kids get more practice time.

Volunteer Program: We fell short in a few areas with volunteers. We don't have any Concessions manager, and our team sponsorships were not close to what we had in Spring. We need to do a better jog coordinating getting Team Sponsors. Managers and Coaches are will be required to report back with 3-5 businesses that they asked to sponsor. I think its just a case of just taking the time to ask.

Fields - We need some new bases installed at ThunderBolt. If interested to help please contact Bruse Anderson. We have the bases already.

Spring Ball - We discussed spring ball. Registration will be in Jan. Season will be Feb - May with All Stars in June and July. We will have a All Star Player Commitment Letter for all who wish to play All Stars. Managers will sponsor some players but all are welcome to tryout. You will need to submit your letter to the league if you are interested. If we do not have enough letters we will know by the end of year if we will have the numbers for any teams. Managers are responsible for making sure their players aware of All Stars.

Refunds were completed.

Long Term Fields - We will be setting up a meeting with Pat McGovern and John Thrasher to discuss their sponsorship behind our plans. We have some specific plans in place tht we would like to get some Commissioners to sponsor us before we approach the Departments heads at Parks and the School Board.

 

Picture Schedule is Ready

All players and coaches need to be at pictures for team and individual photo. All photos will be placed online where you will select your package or ala carte options. You will make all payments thru their web site. The schedule was based on game time and the photograghers request to have 30 minutes per team.


Please help spread the word. Managers and coaches, Team Moms this will require phone calls to all team members. Thank you.

The picture schedule is as follows:

8:00 - Dodgers

8:30 - Marlins

9:00 - Red Sox

9:30 - Cubs

10:00 - Vipers

10:30 - MP3

11:00 - Red Hawks

11:30 - Green Machine

12:00 - Phillies

12:30 - T1 Lees

1:00 - T2 Arnold

1:30 - T3 Froats

2:00 - T4 Greisemer

2:30 - Astros - (No game on Sat.


The photograghers will aslo get action shots of all kids. So they will be busy on the 28th. If they miss any action photos they will return on 11/4 to pcik up the remaining action photos.

Saturday 1:30 TBall games have Changed

***** ATTENTION TBALL PARENTS *******

We moved all 1:30 TBall games to 9am at Armstrong Park. Armstrong is west on 220 before the train tracks. We will play on the front field closest 220. These fields have dugouts and are completely fenced.

Pictures will be on 10/28

We will have more details to follow. At his time you should arrive 30 minutes before your game in order to get individual pictures and team photos. We have selected a professional photogragher that will offer packages as well as many other products.

They will get standard individual and teams plus action shots. No monies due till you see photos online. Links to come.

I will leave it at that for now, expect details by tomorrow.

Board Meeting Friday 10/20

All board members and volunteers are invited.

6-7pm at Thunderbolt School - Covered Area. We will start promptly at 6 and keep to the agenda to keep things moving.

We will cover the following items:
- New Board Members
- Season Update
- Spring Season Update
- Overall Volunteer Program
- Refund Requests
- Long Term Field Situation dates will be set for first committee meeting

- Open Items

Thank you.