How to Run a Hassle-Free Team
- Start Early Finding A Sponsor:
- Have all team members help solicit sponsors.
- Know how much money to ask for:
- Team Fee
- Uniforms
- Tournaments
- Equipment
- Team Party
- Miscellaneous
- Full or partial sponsorship
- Order Uniforms Early:
- Always check uniform number requirement and minimum number size.
- Buy extra uniforms for added players/lost uniforms/ forgot to bring to game.
- Check on how to order extra shirts next year.
- You own your screen if you paid a shirt company for it - ask for it.
- If you have to, collect jerseys after each game/you have to wash them.
- Establish How Team Players Are Chosen:
- Talent only.
- Friend and neighbors
- Church members, etc.
- Establish Playing Time Policy
- To achieve best score feasible.
- Everybody gets to play.
- Keeping A Team Under Control:
- Discipline
- Inform player of rules on being ejected from ball games
- Form a team grievance committee
- Keep Roster Current:
- Know how to add/delete players.
- Know deadline for adding/deleting players.
- Know classification.
- Establish league wanted.
- Special rules for your classification.
- Always Know Deadlines For Entry Fees:
- City League.
- Tournaments.
- Attend managers meetings, umpire clinics.
- Schedule:
- Who calls players for games.
- Ask who will be present/missing for the next game or dates during the season players will not be available.
- Refreshments after the game.
- Practice on weeks when only one league game is scheduled.
- Inform Players Regularly That They Can Be Hurt Playing The Game:
- If you have a player who has no regard for his body or others, take him/her out of the game for their health as well as others. (If they gripe- remind them we have to go to work tomorrow)
- If you have a player with discipline problems, wants to start fights, yells at referees or gets intoxicated, remind them of his/her responsibility to the sponsor, his/her team members and himself/herself