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Dear NABA League President:

The NABA hopes this email finds you, your families and your leagues doing well. The National Office has been working to continue to provide our player members with opportunities and benefits for being a part of the NABA. Below we have provided some new opportunities we recently made. Please feel free to post this information on your League website and to contact us if you should have any questions on how each of the programs work.

Sports Authority

The NABA and Sports Authority have agreed to make Sports Authority one of NABA's Official Sporting Goods Suppliers. For those leagues who do not have a Sports Authority, we are working to make the contact with Dicks Sporting Goods to assist you if you should have a Dicks instead of a Sports Authority.

The National Office has already posted this on the front page of the National Website if you are interested in reviewing it.

We have attached the Sports Authority Logo to this email to allow you to post it on your website if you would like to do that. As well, each month Sports Authority will be sending to the NABA a coupon for all of our player members to use for any purchases made nationwide. We have also attached the coupon for you to post on your website for your player members as well.

In addition, Sports Authority has agreed where they have a location, to allow all of our League President's the opportunity to use their store location as way for our League President's to promote their leagues, or to use their locations for meetings if needed.

Sports Authority has provided the NABA National Office with the contact list of every Community Marketing Representative for every store nationwide. If you are interested in setting up a table in their store to promote your league; to hand out information about your league; or to setup a League meeting, information meeting, or umpires meeting, please contact the NABA National Office and we will provide you with the name and phone number of the Community Marketing Representative in your area.

New Era Caps

The NABA and New Era Caps have agreed to make New Era the Official Cap Supplier of the NABA. The National Office has already posted this on the front page of our National Website if you are interested in reviewing it.

We have attached the New Era logo to this email to allow you to post it on your website if you would like to do that. We have also attached a letter from New Era that you can hyperlink to the logo explaining to all of your teams how they can utilize the new program if they are interested in purchasing caps.

New Era has asked that all teams contact them personally for setup, digitizing, artwork and payment. New Era has asked that prices not be posted online in case there is ever a price change; however, the NABA National Office has seen the discounted price offered to teams and they range from $11.95 for adjustable caps to $15.95 for custom fitted caps.

You can see below New Eras terms and conditions which they will explain to each team who contacts them.

1. We do not charge for set up, digitizing, or art work.

2. Shipping charges do apply to orders, based on the weight of the caps. A written quote will be provided before the order is placed.

3. An electronic design is sent to each customer for approval before any order is placed.

4. Payment for orders are taken with school PO’s or Credit Cards

Pro Ice Cold Therapy Products

The NABA and Pro Ice have agreed to make Pro Ice the Official Cold Therapy Product of the NABA.

The National Office has already posted this on the front page of the National Website if you are interested in reviewing it. We have attached the Pro Ice logo to this email to allow you to post it on your website if you would like to do that. We have also attached a letter from Pro Ice and the NABA that you can hyperlink to the logo explaining to all of your teams how they can utilize the new program if they are interested in purchasing product.

All NABA player-members are entitled to an incredible 50% discount from Pro Ice when purchasing cold therapy products. The letter also provides the discount code and the web address for Pro Ice where all player members can purchase the product.

Conclusion

The NABA National Office hopes that you will take advantage of promoting our partnerships on your website and to your leagues. We are currently finishing another opportunity with ZINGER BATS to become an Official Wood Bat of the NABA. Once we have that deal locked in for all of our player members we will be forwarding to you that information as well.

Last, the NABA National Office would like to ask a favor from each of you. Could you please assist us in whatever manner possible in asking teams and in finding teams in your league to join us for our NABA National Tournament and World Series. The NABA uses our tournaments to help fund operations and to keep our affiliation fees at the lowest cost possible. While prices are rising everywhere around the country in every phase of business, the NABA National Office started our affiliation fees at $20.00 per player in 1998 and has never increased those fees since, although our competitor has. We will continue to fight and honor the affiliation fee where it is because we believe that is what is right for our player members. However, we need help in getting teams to our tournaments.

As we speak the NABA Las Vegas Tournament over Memorial Weekend has 48 committed teams. The Atlantic City Tournament over Memorial Weekend has 16 teams. While both tournaments are significantly down, the most surprising aspect of this is that of the 48 teams in Las Vegas, only 9 of those teams are from NABA leagues. In Atlantic City of the 16 teams in the tournament only 3 are from NABA leagues.

We realize that the economy is tough for all of our player members. We do however provide a discount for all teams who are NABA affiliated to every tournament. And, for the World Series we provide a discount as well as have the League Championship award program for each championship team in your league. We sincerely appreciate any assistance of help you could provide us in reaching out to your teams.

Thank you for your time and assistance!

Shane Fugita

Shane Fugita

President and National Director

National Adult Baseball Association