Arlington Senior Babe Ruth Baseball

“On this line we sum costs for chartering with the National Babe Ruth Leagues Inc. for liability, accident and Board of Directors insurance for all players, coaches, other volunteers and Board members, for uniforms, baseball equipment and balls, for volunteer recognition awards, for promotion, field banners listing sponsors and like expenses not included in Line 15, and for expenses of hosting Babe Ruth League district and other tournaments.”

“The major program change in 2024 was that we ended our select travel baseball program. A competing select travel program had developed over the past several years in Arlington, with our and the other program competing for player commitments and sponsor money. Our Board and their Board agreed to merge to end that competition for the benefit of all select players and their families in Arlington. This resulted in refunds of travel program payments made earlier by travel families, and end of use of our program's Senators uniforms. Our travel program ended in April, so no fall select travel program revenues came in, and expenses did not go out. A 1,758 dollar loss is reflected on this line, against the estimated value of uniforms and equipment retained for use next year. The line also also includes resolution of any errors over the year in data entry into our working budget spreadsheet, as against the our cash bank balance end of year.”

“This entry estimates the value of personal property used in the program, balls, uniforms and equipment. We did estimate a 2-year life for uniforms, but now allow players to keep their uniform shirts, providing community advertising for the program and for team sponsors. As this year's program changes description indicates, we did not sponsor and operate a travel baseball program after May, and we no longer have the uniform shirts acquired for the travel program, resulting roughly in the halving of the estimated value of our uniforms and equipment”