Knights Baseball Club

TLDR:

• A – I’m just here trying to help be an organization of sorts.
• B – $80 per player for Balls and the Next Tournament Cost.

Good Morning, Team,

First off, please be very aware, I’m in no way the official ANYTHING for the Knights at this time. No one has appointed me to any position or leadership role. But I’m reaching out to give a little bit of a status update on the Knights. 

As the Knights are not currently participating in Little League or other seasonal organizations, the need to support Coach David’s leadership with an organizational structure is present. 

David has footed the bill for a lot over the seasons of Knights Travel ball.  And I can attest, having at least tried to track it last season for Davis’s sake, that costs are going uncollected. 

The Knights are not attempting to organize as a for-profit. However, we do need to support the team activities. Until I’m told to back off, I’m going to try to ensure we collect funds sufficient to support our activities in advance, only for specific activities that need to be paid for by the participants. 

I’m also working on a 501(c)(3) status for a separate non-profit (Back of the Jersey), and we will then be able to collect donations as well! 

I’m going to try and run everything through Venmo as it’s more or less a public view of what has been paid to whom… the balance can remain there, but there will be an account opened for the benefits of the Knights shortly as well. In the name of Back to the Jersey, FBO the Knights. And I’ll be sure to keep all accounting as open to all as is reasonable.  

Right now, we have two financial needs for the team: 

1 – Practice Balls – We need a new set of practice balls for the team. Running low and ragged right now! Preferred balls per various coaches – https://a.co/d/9U3Pcfo

2 – Tournament Costs – These are variable and in some cases we don’t know the cost until after the tournament because it’s “pay at the plate”. It depends on how many games you win. So, with this in mind, from my experience, tournaments cost about $50 per player. 

So right now:

• $500 for the August 23/24 tournament
• $209 for the balls

Total: $709 / 10 players actively participating at the last practice – $71/person

• I’m going to assume half cost for David.
• I’m tacking on $25 bucks for taxes, misc. 

So that is $734

• Head Coach – 37 (rounding up to 40)
• All others – 78 (round up to $80)

So, I’m looking at $80 per person, so it’s no longer on David’s shoulders exclusively. This $80 is for future costs we are already aware of. The $35 that has already been paid was for the practice fields and is being paid to David shortly to cover that cost.

If you have any questions about this, please let me know.