Teams Present -Barrie, Braumeisters, Burlington Hobos, Burlington Red Sox, Dufferin Simcoe Braves, Dufferin Simcoe Rockers, Hamilton, Montreal, Oakville, OSBA, Port Lambton, Scarborough, Tecumseh, Tillsonburg, Walsingham, Welland, 

 

Regrets - Chatham, Woodslee, Brampton

 

President Rich Knight started meeting with a roll call with teams on the call, and welcomed all Team Reps that took the time to join conference call,  and thanked all the teams that supported Vintage Baseball by playing in one day events,  over the last two years due to the Covid Pandemic and hoped that this year would be different

 

All Teams have received the 2022 Financial Report - 

 

 

 

*Rich Knight we started 2021 Ball season later than usual, as that Covid numbers started to decrease, and thanked all teams that hosted those successful One Day Events,

 

**In September we hosted successful events in Welland, Woodslee and Port Lambton unfortunately Sunday’s washed out the 33+ and 43+ events in Port Lambton and Woodslee. In our 50+ event which included Tecumseh, Stratford, Walsingham, Hamilton and Oakville was totally washed out in Exeter with The Tecumseh and Chatham Teams playing a double header in October

 

2022 Vintage Baseball Outlook​​​

 

Rich Knight announced the Mike Burke will become the new 33+ Vintage Baseball Director, Rich stated that all directors are in charge of any rule changes brought forward, will handle those requests

 

Rich asked that the Vintage Teams continue to go with one day events and asked anyone that would like to host a provincial Tournament in September to send to richknight@hotmail.ca then he will discuss with the Director in that Age Category and they will make the call working with the other Directors to avoid conflicting dates

 

 

With the outlook better this year all teams are asked to pay there Annual Dues by May 15th, 2022, 

 

Annual Dues go to paying for Insurance for their Team Players, so we are keeping the cost the same!

One Team $100

If you are covering 2 Teams - $125

And 3 Teams - $150

 

Please Pay by e transfer and send that to Rich Knight at richknight15@hotmail.ca

Please include your team / teams name

If you would like to pay by cheque please contact me by email and will let you know will give you the address to send it too 

 

Remember each team hosting a one day event or 2 day tournament must make sure teams playing in your tournaments are insured, if you don’t know just send me an email or text me 416-998-0786

 

Finally, for those teams needing an insurance certificate to book parks please send me an email and will try and process ASAP- 

 

Final Note Baseball Ontario Template still is not up and to let you know I do check on a daily basis

 

 

 

President Tim Lessard let everyone there are 38 teams booked and Teams who are thinking of coming should be booking rental cars / Hotels asap

**UPDATE** now CNOBF 2022 is at 40 teams, those teams who are still thinking of coming will go on a waiting list

 

 

Rob Fisher brought forth a rule change suggesting pitcher be allowed to pitch as many as 7 innings in one game- Rob explained that as a pitcher and especially in the older divisions he felt it would be more beneficial to pitch as many innings as he could go in one game rather than pitching 2 or 3 innings in 2 maybe 3 different games that could create arm problems for those particular pitchers in future games. Even after the discussion , and a team that requested amendment from a 50+ team then 2nd that proposed rule, then stated they did not hear the original Rule Proposal properly.

 

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After contacting Dan Radobenko (50+/57+ Director) Dan has suggested the following:

 

For this year on trial basis  - 50 + / 57+ ONLY

 

50+ Any pitcher can now pitch 3 innings or 9 consecutive outs , but in most case you will still need to use "3 pitchers"

 

57+ based on 6 inning games "ONE" pitcher can pitch 3 innings - 9 consecutive outs which means you have to use 2 other pitchers (in most cases 6 defensive innings) one (2 innings or 6 consecutive outs) the other (one inning or 3 consecutive outs)

 

 

 

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Last item Brian Hardcastle presented a cloth with a resin that could be used on a bat (replacing pine tar) or to help pitchers get a better grip on the ball or maybe even a glove - the good thing about this product is the resin last only for a day and no more tar residue left on bats . On follow up, Brian Revin asked if MLB has approved the product to apply to the baseball, Brian replied No, 

 

However if someone is interested, let me know and I will pass along Bryan Hardcastle contact's information.

 

No other new business, 

 

 

 

Rich thanked the team Reps for attending the meeting

 

Conference Call ended at 12:50 pm