2010-Pioneer Valley Over Thirty Baseball League-Year 6

The PVOTB originally 4 teams which played all their games at Pioneer Valley Regional School on Tuesday nights is now 6 teams and we play one set of games at Herlihy Field in Whately plus we play Tuesday nights and Saturday Mornings.

The 2010 Season League policies will be as follows:

• We use Wood or Wood/Composite bats (Bamboo, laminates). Wood bats will be the responsibility of the individual to provide.
• We are going with 2 umpires per game this year. We hope this provides some cover for them and allows them to make the tough calles more accurately. We will continue to work on being good sports and understand that any abuse of our umpires will not be tolerated. There will be NO bitching about calls, and only the Manager may politely question an interpretation of a rule. Period. You can and will be tossed from the game for a breach of this rule. We want spectators to be able to watch and enjoy our games.
• League membership fees will be collected by the teams. The teams will pay a 'Team Fee'. The 'Team Fee' is simply the cost of running the League divided by 6. Each team manager will collect the 'Player fees' from the players. The player fee is the 'Team Fee' divided by the number of players on the team. Teams with 12 roster players will have higher 'player fees' than a team with 16 roster players. So each team can decide how they want to manage their rosters. There is a NO PAY NO PLAY policy this year.
• Home team at all games will have the 3rd base bench and are responsible for chalking the baselines and batters boxes if they wish. Equipment and supplies will be made available. The pitchers mound and batter's box will be groomed post game and the covers will be replaced.
• Game Schedule: 25 league games plus possible a pre season game with WMWBBL.

As a reminder to returning players and those new players entering the league, we pride ourselves in having one of the best played, best enjoyed, best fields and best players league in the valley. What comes with that is a huge responsibility to maintain that standard. In the beginning we had but 4 rules because BASEBALL has a rule book (Sporting News Rules) and these were Play Fair, Play Hard, Have Fun and enjoy the company of other Baseball Fanatics. For the most part this is enough but on some occaisions, competitive juices flow a little too unchecked and situations can escalate.
Umpires are not to be yelled at, sworn at, bumped, threatened or humiliated, Period!  Supplying umpires is tough enough throughout the summer season, supplying quality umpires is even more difficult. Please help us retain our brothers in blue and make it as enjoyable for them to be at the game as it is for us. Thank you.

Managing the teams this season will be: Jay “Supe” Sadowski, Mike “Nails”, Ken Hartwright and Kyle Phelps, Andy “LaLoosh” Talbot, Tom “Smoke” Bresciano, Ken “G’DIK” Sloat.
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Each manager is responsible for the team's sportsmanlike attitudes and displays.

We are looking forward to a great season of Baseball and hope everyone is healthy and able to enjoy the league for what it is worth. PLAY BALL!