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League Championship
Award Program
Dear NABA
League Presidents and Team Managers,
I hope this letter finds you doing
well and looking forward to your upcoming season. Part of the NABA’s
vision is to provide our player-members with a value and benefit for
participating in the NABA.
The NABA believes we have over the
years offered many benefits to our league presidents, managers and
players for participating in the NABA. The NABA recognizes the hard
times in our economy for all of our League Presidents and players across
the country. We are always looking for ways to determine how to make
our product a better value to our members. Over the years as adult
baseball has become a mainstream product in our culture, the NABA has
invited independent teams to join our tournaments in order to increase
the level of competition and numbers in our tournaments for our NABA
teams. Over the years we have delivered many discounted certificates to
our NABA leagues to motivate our teams to attend tournaments and to
reward our teams for being a NABA-affiliated team.
The NABA wants to continue to
reward our NABA affiliated League Presidents, managers and teams for
being a part of the NABA. That is why the NABA started the NABA LEAGUE
CHAMPIONSHIP AWARD PROGRAM. Here is how it works:
NABA LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP
REWARD PROGRAM
The NABA will offer every league
president across the nation who is affiliated with the NABA an award for
each team league champion within your league. The award is based on:
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Giving our teams and players an
advantage for being an NABA affiliated team and player; and by
giving our League Champions an incentive and discount to participate
in our World Series.
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Giving our league president’s
an advantage for being an NABA affiliated league, and giving them
another strategic advantage or benefit to offer teams to come into
their league.
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Giving the NABA national office
another benefit to offer to only our NABA affiliated leagues and
teams; and the opportunity to improve attendance at our World Series
tournaments.
Each League President across the
country will be able to award each league champion in their league with
a $500.00 gift certificate to the NABA Phoenix World Series or the NABA
Florida World Series every year. This program is for League Champions
only, and not for Division Winners.
Each League President can
immediately start advertising to all its teams and potential teams the
opportunity for a certificate to the NABA World Series for winning the
league. The cost to attend the NABA World Series is $175 per player.
The average team size for a World Series roster is 13 players. This
would reduce the cost for each player by $38.00 for a league champion
making the cost $137.00 per player for a team with 13 players. This is
a great opportunity for our NABA teams and players to reduce the costs
to come to our World Series. In fact, since the NABA World Series in
1995, the cost per player was $150.00, thus giving players costs today
that are below the rates from over 17 years ago.
OBLIGATIONS TO USE THE
DISCOUNT
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Each League President must have
verifiable proof of each team being a league champion, and must
submit their league champions’ to the National Office by the Tuesday
after Labor Day in September.
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If a league champion will not
be determined until after Labor Day, then the League President must
submit their League Champion the day after they have won the
league.
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An NABA league champion team
must advise the NABA National Office of their intent to use the
League Championship discount when entering the tournament and making
a deposit.
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The league championship team
must have a minimum of 8 players from the current league roster to
qualify for the discount.
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The league championship team
must have their league roster on the NABA registration system in
order to qualify for the discount and for NABA to verify their
roster. Any league champion not on the NABA registration system, is
ineligible to utilize the discount.
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The discount is valid for the
current year’s Phoenix and Florida World Series. It will not be
transferrable to any other tournament or team and will not carry
over to the following year. It must be used in the year they have
won the league championship.
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No team will be allowed to
utilize the discount without informing the NABA two weeks prior to
attending the tournament check-in.
Our goal is to give our teams an
advantage for being an NABA affiliated team, and the opportunity to
reduce their costs per player to the World Series. Our goal is give our
League President’s another benefit as to why teams may choose to
participate in their league versus another league. Finally, our goal is
to improve the attendance of our NABA World Series with NABA teams and
make them viably strong for future tournaments.
Your participation in this program
will only go as far as your enthusiasm for it, and your enthusiasm to
promote it to your teams, and by those potential teams playing in your
league. If you have any questions regarding this program, please do not
hesitate to contact the National Office.
Please note: The certificate
can only be used for a complete team. No individual players or partial
teams are allowed to use the certificate. Certificates are
non-transferable to other teams and cannot be redeemed for cash. By
using the certificate, the team using it agrees it must stay at one of
the NABA host hotels. NABA reserves the right to refuse any team
permission to utilize a certificate or participate in an NABA Sanctioned
Tournament. The certificate cannot be used for a deposit into the
tournament.
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