February 13, 2008

 It has recently come to our attention that some children who have enrolled in our Spring 2008 program have also joined or are planning to join one or more teams that will be playing in various tournaments throughout the Long Island area. Although there is no prohibition against any child enrolling and participating in another baseball program during our Spring intramural season, you should be aware of the following two rules:
(1) Any child that participates in another league or team is not eligible to pitch on a Plainview Little League team during the Spring intramural season and
(2) No parent of a child that is participating in another league or on another team is eligible to be a manager during the Spring intramural season.  However such parent would still be eligible to be a coach on one of our intramural teams. The exception is if that individual is either manager or coach in that outside league.

 Both of these local rules were enacted by the Board of Directors in order to protect the health and welfare of the children who participate in our baseball and softball programs and to preserve the integrity of our intramural program. Under our Little League charter we are mandated to enforce strict limits on the amount of time that a child is utilized as a pitcher. As you all know by now, such limits are computed by the maximum number of pitches that a child can throw on any given day.

Unfortunately, the Plainview Little League can not monitor children who play in other leagues and on other teams in order to determine if such pitching limits are being followed. In order to be fair to those children who do not expect to pitch on their outside team a waiver of the no pitching rule may be requested. A copy of such request for waiver may be obtained from the director of your child's division (Please click here for a printable version of the waiver, and be aware that it needs to be submitted to the league by February 29th, 2008).

   Although participation in more than one baseball  league seems very tempting to many parents, we ask you to consider carefully whether or not such simultaneous activities are really in your child's best interest. As always we welcome both your comments and questions about our organization and the manner in which we conduct our various baseball and softball programs.

                                                                     David Vanderpool,

                                                                     President