NBBA WORLD SERIES TOURNAMENT GUIDELINES
General Guidelines:
- Any city or group wishing to host the tournament shall make their presentation to the NBBA Tournament Committee at their Board meeting at least 2 years prior to the desired date. Presentation shall include the following:
- Adequate motel facilities with nearby eating facilities and area for guide dog relief. Also availability of meeting rooms and banquet facilities.
- Sufficient number of fields with good grass covering and prop0erly marked in a reasonable quiet area.
- Transportation: Provide to and from airport, frequent trips between motel and fields and any other scheduled events.
- Funding: Availability of possible funding to cover host city responsibilities such as balls, transportation, banquet, etc.
- Volunteers: Proof of availability of volunteer pool.
- The following VOLUNTEERS are needed at each field for each game:
- Minimum of 2 trained and experienced umpires (preferably 3 umpires – 1 home plate and 2 field umpires). Base umps (2) are desired as well.
- Minimum of 1 trained scorekeeper and 1 trained base operator.
- NBBA will provide a Head Umpire to be in charge of all umpires.
- NBBA will provide a Head Statistician to review/post all stats from the games. Local committee may supply a statistician to enter stats after each game.
- EQUIPMENT: Sufficient number of working bases (NBBA will provide 10 sets) and working beep baseballs (200).
- HOSPITALITY: A room should be open each evening of the tournament to serve as tournament headquarters where souvenirs can be sold and event schedules, brackets, scores and game times will be posted. Local committee may provide refreshments (NO ALCOHOL) if desired.
- AWARDS: The NBBA will reimburse the host city up to $750.00 for awards for the World Series. Please see guidelines for what awards need to be purchased. The Jim Quinn, Dan Tracy and NBBA George Haws Sportsmanship Awards will be supplied by the NBBA or other source.
- BANQUET: An awards ceremony needs to be held on Saturday night. If a meal is to be provided and funded by the host city, a maximum of 20 members from each team will be covered. See guidelines for specific details.
- NO alcoholic beverages are permitted at the ball fields.
- FUNDRAISING: Sale of items such as T-shirts, ball caps and concessions at the fields or hotel should be reasonably priced.
- FIELDS: The following should be supplied:
- Water and cups
- Medical assistance by a paramedic or someone “First Aid Qualified” for minor emergencies with 911 assistance available if needed.
- Protective coverings for teams and officials from sun or rain.
- Communication devices for between fields and tournament headquarters.
- The fields/tournament site should be visited by the NBBA President, NBBA Tournament Chairperson, or person appointed by the NBBA Board. This person should assist/help the host group in any way they can.
- The Tournament Director may not be an active player, manager or coach of a team participating in the tournament. Therefore, any game they participate in will be forfeited. If a player, manager or coach desires to be the Tournament Director, they must resign from their team for the duration of the World Series. They may not participate in any games in any capacity other than an official capacity. The NBBA Tournament committee will make the final decision on “illegal participation”.
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