The best FAQ in this directory
Savannah answers nine questions properly, starting with the honest one: what are my chances of playing? The league is always looking for new players to create teams or fill rosters, and it tells you what actually improves your odds -- being prompt in responding to the league officials and managers who reach out to you.
What happens next is dated. Everyone submitting the new player interest form is contacted by a league representative within two to three business days, and if that does not happen you are told to chase the President, the Secretary or your prospective commissioner by name of office. Teams typically begin forming in January so there is time to register players, order uniforms and arrange practices. Every new player goes into the free agent draft pool and gets invited to a workout to meet players, managers and officials before being placed, with teams that have open spots or specific needs given preference to keep the league competitive.
The money is published: $150 to $250 a player for the regular season, $100 to $150 for the fall, both working out at roughly ten dollars a game, neither including uniforms or equipment. Players in multiple divisions, or joining after the season starts, are usually eligible for a discount. Once fees are paid there are no refunds.
The dates are published too: the regular season begins the Sunday after the Super Bowl and ends in August; the fall season begins the Sunday after Labor Day and ends in mid-November. Practices are the teams' own responsibility, and a permit must be filed to use a county field.
That is a league that has worked out exactly what a stranger needs to know. A High Cheese join page puts the fee, the dates and the form in the same place, so the answer and the decision happen together.
Savannah Adult Baseball League in detail
- Southeast Georgia's premier baseball league, in three divisions and two seasons a year.
- Spring from the Sunday after the Super Bowl to August; fall from the Sunday after Labor Day to mid-November.
- The rulebook has a section for scores and tiebreakers; no table is published.
- Results are written up with pitchers, innings and how the game turned.
- Twenty-odd clubs, two of which forfeited the rest of a season for want of players.
- The league's own reports carry pitching lines; no statistics are published.
- A league address plus personal addresses for the president and secretary.
- A new player interest form, a reply within two to three business days, and a draft pool.
- A field locations page, a field maintenance supervisor, and county permits for practice.
- Major League rules with exceptions, a compulsory waiver, and one authorised baseball.
- A news page that is a social feed, written well and hosted elsewhere.
- Photographs and video ride along with the league's social posts.
- No sponsor is named on the league's own pages.
- A championship series in each division, reported game by game as it happens.
- A champions grid back to 2014, with the Royals taking five of six 18+ titles.
- Five officers, each introduced by the teams he has played for.
- A ten-part rulebook and a compulsory waiver and release of liability.
- An open board meeting in November, a spring coaches' meeting in January, and teams forming from January.
- Uniforms are the player's own cost, on top of the fee.
- Umpires get their own rulebook section and are issued the game balls.
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