And this league has 11 teams. As for sponsors, that's out of our hands. Years ago when the l9cal newspaper dedicated one day a week to have the "Softball Scoreboard" where an entire page or more was used to list every local league standings and each league submitted a little write up of the games held that week and the paper printed everything. This helped teams get sponsors as at least the sponsor could see his business listed in the paper. Tournaments were covered as well.
And for the number of games this league plays, the cost is crazy low. Some leagues cost upwards of 2000 per year. Teams can always find a sponsor and if not, the players would chip in and pay. But getting money from some sponsors takes a while and trying to get money from people is like pulling teeth. But they will go out and buy 3 bats and whatever else. Lol.
All the leagues are losing teams. In the past these were some local leagues that we played in and how many teams they used to have in their heyday
Bridgeport .. 30
Conshohocken .. 20
Collegeville ... 15
Linfield ... 12
Pottstown ... 12
Norco ... 12
Phoenixville YMCA . 30
East Norriton Sunday.. 10
Lansdale .. 12
Ambler .. 12
King of Prussia Industrial . 10
Valley Forge Coed .. 10
West Norriton Coed . 30
Pottstown Sunday ..24
Central Montco .. 16
Whitpain Coed .. 12
Cheltenham .. 12
Horsham Coed ..12
Radnor Mon-Wed .. 20
Lansdale Fall ..20
Bridgeport Fall .. 10
Maple Glen Tavern ....12
Flourtown Women ... 10
Glenside .. 8
Norristown Sunday Fall .. 30
Norristown Sunday Women fall .8
All these leagues folded year after year. Some merging together with each other before finally calling it quits.
Still hanging on and how many they had at its peak to now
Norristown men ..43 to 11
Norristown Women . 20 to 4
Plymouth .. 24 to 7
Linfield Sunday .. 12 to 4
Phoenixville Rec .. 18 to 10
Radnor Tue-Thur .. 24 to 12
Quakertown .. 20 to 6
NE Montco . 12 to 5
Penbryn Fall .. 20 to 12
I'm just going by memory. It's not the fault of anybody running current leagues or any other reason other than less people are playing. So please don't try to blame anything going on in our league right.
The reason is simple. There are more different things to do and less are playing.
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