how can i organize a baseball travel team?
553005
It depends on what age you're desinging it for. You can always start up a little leauge or babe-ruth or cal-ripkin porgram in your town if it's that age, but if you want to do it for a school talk to the athletic director.
476224
That is cool that your first name is coach.\n\nYou probably need to call one of the other teams and ask them to give you phone numbers of people to call.\n\nThat would be what I would do.
135810
If you're in NYC, you can try the Party City stores for balllons or other supplies:\nhttp://www.partycity.com/cgi-bin/stores/show.cgi\nOr the Team clubhouse shop like the one in Times Square\nhttp://www.sportsavenue.com/yankees.htm
905844
My best advice for you is to get the backing of a local field and find a teacher who would be willing to be a coach or at least an adviser.  If you're not already a frequent visitor of www.pbnation.com go there.  There are lots of threads on there from people who have started up teams at their schools and there's lots of info on how they did it.
830565
What age level?  Get with your local newspaper and your local umpire's association.  You need both to get things started.  I started a league 6 years ago here for men, and it was a real pain getting more than 6 teams started that first year.  However, we found that there are teams wanting to play who are looking for a home.  Make contacts, and get the word out until people cannot help but to say, "Well, here comes that baseball league speech again!"  When they know what's up, they'll come.  If you build it, they will come...
1042695
Most players on a roster maintain a house or apartment in their team's hometown.  Rookies and other non-permanent players (such as minor leaguers who are called up for a couple weeks while another is on the disabled list) might stay in a hotel.  On the road, they'll usually stay at the team hotel.  Few players live year-round in their team's city: foreign players usually go back to their home countries in the off-season; others maintain homes where they come from, though I've noticed that many live in Florida or Arizona (presumably near their team's spring training complex).
776812
maybe if someone took pictures you could make each of them a photo album... or take a pic of the team and have the rest of the team sign one... have each of the players write down something special from the season and put them all in a box... just a few ideas... have fun!
387620
go to eastbay.com and shop around you can order in team quantitees or single orders\nor see what you can find on baseballexpress.com
220448
try calling teams phones and see if they can help
1079764
you should put a public notice in the Chicago Sun times with this exact notion of yours---brilliant!!! people from all over Chicagoland--and beyond-- will line up to sign your "petition"! if you go ahead with your idea, watch it--you might see people in their graves coming up from the dead waiting to join you in your quest for some kind of compensation.so many folks since 1908 have been waiting for the Cubs  to do something like what the white sox did last year. I always think they should eliminate the organization and start a new franchise elsewhere. good luck, inspired one!
1080552
You'll have way better luck reaching them with snail mail (usps)\nYou can send a photo request to the team in c/o the player and who knows what you could receive back.
391952
First thing I'd do...get an American ownership!  The owner never ever been to the stadium to see them play one game.\n\nWe need local ownership: Paul Allen if you are reading this....\n\nSecond: Fire that manager, and get lou back!  The team wants "yes men" and "do gooders" coaches and players that won't make waves...well they cant swing bats either....\n\nSo, don't hold your breath.  Or you should because:\n\nWE STINK UP THE PLACE!!
314467
Get to the ballpark about 2 hours before game time and head straight to the front row at the end of either dugout. This is where they go in and out for warmups and will often sign then. I even got Ichiro's that way. Best bet is at spring training though. Everyone signs a lot there, exept the true a-holes.
135383
Baltimore Orioles are very close to where you are. Or check internet MLB teams.
605889
Choose the right teams
369392
sausage sizzle at the mall or get some sponsorship prizes and run a raffle.\n\nbest thing is find a good corporate sponsor....ask the players of the team if they have friends who own businesses...they would be a good starting point.\n\ngood luck!
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Try doing a search on Yahoo or Google.\n\nYou could also try www.mlb.com and then look for major league baseball teams farm teams.\n\nYou can pretty well find any baseball team this way.