First, we want to say “Thank you“ to everyone who has already contacted the league expressing their  willingness to volunteer.

With this letter we want to call again for more volunteers and give you some more specific information regarding what work has to be conducted on every game day:

–      We plan on offering up to six pick-up games on Saturdays from April to July.

–  For those Saturdays we need a consistent set of volunteers that can be there on all game days for the following tasks:

o   At least 10 volunteers to set up the field in the morning (approximately 3 hours). There will be mainly manual labor involved in this role.

o   15 volunteers during the game day (hygiene regulations, bathroom duty since those are farther away from the field, team management, coaching, etc.)

o   At least 10 volunteers to take down the field in the evening (approximately 3 hours). There will be mainly manual labor involved in this role.

We are especially looking for those of you that can commit to being in these roles each of the six Saturdays in question. We are aware that this is a huge burden; however, we will need to depend on the continuity of certain people and tasks to make set up and take down work run smoothly and quickly.”

Thanks to all of you.  Have a great day!

Best,

Florian

We hope that you and your families are all well despite the ongoing Corona pandemic, which now for two seasons has prevented us from being able to host ALLBB games. Naturally, we all miss the “feel” of our Sachtlebenstraße ball park, miss our baseball community, the games, the joy of the kids, and the attractive smokey scent of the BBQ.

Again, this third season in the pandemic it will not be easy for the ALLBB to host children’s baseball games for the following two reasons:

1. The persistent Corona pandemic is making it difficult, if not nearly impossible, for us to plan ahead.
2. Our Sachtlebenstraße ball park – after numerous years of discussion and planning – is now in the process of being rebuilt and renovated by the district office of Steglitz-Zehlendorf. Clearly, this is fantastic news! However, it also means that this season we will not have our baseball fields available as usual. As a consequence, we will have to move to the soccer field on the other side of the former basketball area.

For these reasons we will unfortunately not be able to provide a normal “ALLBB season” in 2022 as we would otherwise do. Nevertheless, we want to offer the children “pick-up games” on hopefully six Saturdays in May/June.

To realize these baseball games for our kids WE WILL NEED A LOT OF HELP: YOUR HELP!

• First, the baseball field has to be completely set up and taken down on the soccer field every Saturday that we offer this service: We cannot leave everything standing there during the week. For this service we require a reliable team of at least 15 helpers who always show up on time on the Saturdays designated for the pick-up games.
• In addition, because of required Corona pandemic hygiene measures, we also need additional 10 to 15 volunteers throughout the day of the pick-up games.

Without your support, we will not be able to run baseball game days for the children.

Please consider helping out the Little League by assisting with field set-up and tear-down support and/or with hygienic support during the pick-up games. Please inform us of your support by 31.03.2022 in order that we can carry out further planning and preparation.

If you want to help out, please send us a message to commissioner@allbb.de

As some of our board members have left over the past two years or will be leaving after this season, we also invite you to become a member of the ALLBB Board. In order to continue to run the league and operate a baseball division within the SC-JFKS in the future we need new volunteers willing to get involved.

A final important note regarding dues: All players who wish to participate in the 2022 ALLBB season – despite the shortened season that has to be adapted to the circumstances of the ongoing pandemic – will be required to pay the full ALLBB dues. The last two years have extensively depleted the league’s treasury due our continual ongoing financial obligations, without any opportunity for generating new revenue. In addition, we will incur further high costs for materials required for setting up our replacement baseball field this season.

We would like to thank you all for your loyalty. We sincerely hope that you and other volunteers will come forward to enable us to provide the children with an exciting baseball season this year.

The Board of the ALLBB