• COMMISSIONER: JIM GANZ, 301-236-9130
• TREASURER: JOE VALONIS, 410-266-7997
• MARYLAND/DC ASA COMMISSIONER: JACK MOWATT, 301-621-7152
• GAME RULES COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: SKIP MCAFEE, 410-730-5847

NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

2010 Preseason BBSSL Managers Meetingecently e the following anouncement:

Commissioner Jim Ganz has announced that the next meeting for the BBSSL will be on Thursday, February 25, 2010 from 10:00 am until Noon at Cedar Lane Park. Be advised that because there is a function right after us, we are asked to make sure we are out of there by Noon. Please make a note of this meeting and if you are unable to attend, please send a worthy representative.

Revised Scheduling

The following email is presented for your information and comments.

"From: Jim Ganz
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 1:13 PM
To: Vail Gold Clemence ; Ron GElg Ward ; Rich How Costa ; Ray Gray Owings ; Pete Bronze Bielski ; Lee Harf Messenger ; Larry Carr Bair ; John Hitt Cress ; John Dund Shilling ; Joe Valonis ; Irv Gblt Salzberg ; Frank Caton Simpson ; Frank Bronze Packaneviecz ; Ed Hitt Pugh ; Dick Shepherd ; Cliff Park Gillespie ; Charlie Silver Renner ; Bob OldL Beene ; Bill Gelg Winter ; Bill Bronze Chappell ; Al BelA Dukes ; John Medford
Cc: Joe Valonis
Subject: Revised Scheduling

Hi Everyone,

As you probably know, Ray Owings, Manager of the Carroll Gray team, had a Severe Stroke and is in recovery. It will be a considerable amount of time until he gets well. Ray was the key component in organizing the third team from Carroll County. Therefore, the third team, the Carroll Classics will not be joining the league this year. They assure me that they will next year.

That means there will be six teams in the "A" and "B" Divisions and only five in the "C" Division and this will create a need to change our scheduling formula and it will mean we will be playing a few more games. Each division will play 52 games with: "A" playing 4 intradivision DH games (5x4x2=40), with "A" playing Interdivision games with "B" (6x2=12) for their total of 52 games; B" playing 3 intradivision DH games (5x3x2=30) plus (6x2=12) against "A" and (5x2=10) against "C" for their 52 games; and, "C" playing 5 intradivision DH games (4x5x2=40) plus (6x2=12) against "B" for their total of 52 games.

I hope this makes sense to you. One thing this arrangement wil do is to make all games with your respective division doubleheaders and single games against other divisions.

The "B" division teams will probably ask about the third doubleheader within their division. I would suggest that the managers agree to play the third doubleheader at one or the other's field while splitting home team honors. This is also true for the "C" Division in their fifth doubleheader.

What do you think?

Jim"

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With the withdrawal of the Carroll Classics, the impending league alignment for next season and the number of games each team will play would be as shown in the table below:

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Sick Call

For those who don't know, Ray Owings, manager, Carroll Gray, recently sufferred a serious stroke that left him partially paralyzed. He is in a Baltimore rehab facility, and his prospects for retuning to normal health are, at best, gloomy. Please keep Ray in your thoughts and prayers. And, if you'd like to send cheer-up messages, please send them to:

Ray Owings
2305 Belvedere Road
Westminster MD 21158

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Selected Items from the 2009 Post Season Managers Meeting Held on October 7, 2009

One of the major changes resulting from this meeting was the restructuring of the League for the 2010 season. The league alignment for next season will be as shown in the table below:

Also, as noted in the above table, two new teams were welcomed into the league. They are the Howard Hawks which were assigned to the "B" Divsion and the Carroll Classics which were assigned to the "C" Division. Welcome aboard!

Another item of note was the age profiles of the league. Jim Ganz prepared a detailed analysis of the ages of the teams' players who were on the league's roster at the beginning of the 2009 season. (This analysis can be viewed by clicking on this link.)

This analysis served as a talking point as to whether a 70+ league would be viable in the near future. As stated in the minutes of the meeting,

"it was decided to conduct some research on the true level of interest. Each manager is to poll his players to ascertain the numbers and names of those interested and report to Vail C lemence by November 15, 2009. It was also decided that it would be more practical to make this a “draft” league that would begin, if there is support for such a league, in 2011. This will be discussed at the next league meeting in February".

The minutes of the meeting can be viewed in its entirety by clicking on the "Reports" tab at the top of this page and further clicking on the "Meetings" tab from the drop down menu and finally (about time) clicking on the 2009 post season managers meeting