how do i start a baseball franchise?
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#1. Become a multi-millionaire (preferably a billionaire)\n\n#2. Contact a commisioner of a league (MLB, AAA, AA, ect.)\n\n#3. Buy franchise from other rich dude.
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Try a franchise option, fast moving item!!
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Just go down to their offices and sign up -- it's that simple!  You see, not many other people would like to play professional sports, so it's really easy.  Pardon my sarcasm if you're under the age of 12.  But really, the way someone breaks into sports like that is usually by playing that sport in high school, then college, etc. So I would focus on just trying to play baseball as much as possible in little leagues and school. If you're good enough, the path to pro will probably be shown to you by coaches and others.
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The easiest place to do it is through yahoo. http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/ is the page where you'd sign up. Just click on the join league link and you'll be directed where to go from there.
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The 2007 MLB open tryout scheduel has not been set yet but keep an eye on this website:\nhttp://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/official_info/about_mlb/tryout_faq.jsp\n\nAsked Questions About Open Tryout Camps \n*Note: The Major League Scouting Bureau and Major League teams will conduct tryout camps annually. Information will be posted as the Scouting Bureau and teams confirm their tryout camp schedules. Please check back soon for updated camp listings. \n\nQ. "Who is in charge of your tryout camps?"\nA. Territorial scouts from the Major League Scouting Bureau sponsor the tryouts. They work for Major League Baseball and all 30 major league organizations. \n\nQ. "Are there any age requirements as to who can tryout?"\nA. All players must be at least 16 years old to participate. \n\nQ. "What should I bring to the camp?"\nA. Bring gear that you would practice or play a game in. (Hat, cleats, glove, baseball pants). Bats and balls are provided at the workout. Catchers may want to use their own catching gear. \n\nQ. "Is there any cost involved to tryout?"\nA. The tryouts are free of charge. Transportation costs are those of the participant. \n\nQ. "I'm a center fielder and a pitcher. Can I tryout at both positions?"\nA. No, a participant will be asked to choose their best position. \n\nQ. "Can I go to other MLSB Open Tryout Camps?"\nA. Yes, participants can attend as many of the tryouts as they wish. \n\nQ. "Do I have to register for the camps?"\nA. Registration cards will be passed out prior to the beginning of each camp to identify each participant. \n\nQ. "Who watches the players at these camps?"\nA. All thirty major league baseball organizations are invited to the tryouts. \n\nQ. "If a team is interested in me after seeing the tryout, can they sign me to a professional contract on the spot?"\nA. No, the tryout camp must be finished and the participant cannot sign until he leaves the facility. \n\nGood luck to your friend!
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For Major League Baseball, you're gonna have to shell out $15 a month or $80 a season; which gets you every non-local regular season game, and access to your local team after 6am Eastern the next day.\n\nFor college, check on the athletics department website, or NCAA sports.
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There's a United Brooklyn (NY) Baseball League:\nhttp://www.leaguelineup.com/welcome.asp?cmenuid=1&url=ubbl&sid=21337088\nContact information is on this page:\nhttp://www.leaguelineup.com/directors.asp?cmenuid=9&url=ubbl&sid=21337088
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Fundementals, fundementals, fundementals. Work on the basics of throwing, catching and swinging the bat consistently. The more you can ingrain those basics in your team, the better they will do and the more success they will have as they move on to future levels of the game.\n\nThere are several coaching links through eteamz.com, including several message boards where you can communicate with other coaches and get ideas. But whatever you do, keep it fun. The odds are you don't have any future major leaguers on your roster, but you do have a good size group of young players who can develop a lifelong love of the game if you teach them while letting them have fun.
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Okay, first, for rotisserie league baseball:\n\nYou will probably have a league draft.  The teams will draft in some order.  Your job at this point is to try to get the best lineup of players possible, based upon what stats your league is using as competitive factors.  So, if your league uses batting average, runs scored, home runs, RBIs, and steals on offense, you'll want to draft a lineup as balanced as possible in those categories.  The same goes for pitching.  Basically, you want something that looks like a well-thought out real team.\n\nRotisserie league (or "roto ball") rewards consistency.  All the categories that count statistically are ranked 1-x, where x is the number of teams in the league.  If you lead the league in, say, home runs, you get x points.  If you're second, you get x-1 points, down to one point for last.  Most placement points at the end of the seaon wins.\n\nThis setup requires you to have strength in as many statistical categories as possible.  You can blow the league away in half of the stats, but finish near the bottom in the others, and you won't win.  Thus, leading the league in this or that isn't the end purpose.  Solidity across the board is.\n\nYou also have fantasy points leagues.  Here, you draft as before, but each statistic rates points per datum (thus, a run scored might be 1 point; score 500 runs, get 500 points).  I don't like this type as much, as you can figure out where you want your points, draft on that alone, and run away with so much of one or two stats that everything else can rot on the vine and you still win.  This is especially true if the league awards too many points for a statistic (like 20 for a stolen base versus two for a homer... gee, let's get speedsters).\n\nLast, you have head-to-head fantasy, which goes on fantasy points.  Here, you draft, and then you match your stats against another player in the league for a given time (often a day or a week).  Most points in that day or week wins between the two of you, so you end up with standings similar to a real-life table... :)
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first u have to get a job with a team\nthen u can leave and work directly for MLB\nu can eventually work ur way up\nthey always hire within company
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Baseball. Look at all of the foreign players that are entering the majors. Worldwide appeal is rapidly growing. And farm systems add to the excitement of building a team as well.
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The best ways to get into MLB if you do not come from one of the few scouted high schools in the country are ... \n\nPlay baseball for a college team that gets scouted. Just research what college teams current MLB players came from and see what it will take for you to get on one of those teams. \n\nMLB teams have tryout camps at the start of the season. This is a very big longsot at best. Few are ever signed and those who are often get released before they can get off the bus at the minor leage level. \n\nAnother way to get noticed is to play for an independent league. Especially for a team that has ex-MLB players trying to make it back. Scouts may notice you while they are scouting the ex-MLB player. \n\nMLB has tryout camps in places like the Dominican republic. You might possibly be able to get into one of those camps. \n\nJapan is always hungry for forign talent that can help. You might have to play in Taiwan for a year or two first to get noticed by Japan. Still it might be worth a try. \n\nBlackmail a scout into taking a look at you :) Just kidding on this one. Though if you have films of you playing, the right presentation, you might be able to talk a scout into looking at you if you are persistant enough. \n\nMost importantly dont' give up. If you really want to play you can make it happen. Mike Piazza a certain hall of famer was signed purely as a favor. The system is weighted heavily towards height and who looks like a baseball player today. Still exceptions happen. Brian Giles and Edgar Martinez are proof that the physical profile concept is a waste of time and excludes many of the best potential prospects in the game. Both of them almost did not make the majors because they did not fit the profile yet turned out to be big stars when they finaly did get to play.
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The other option is to do it yourself. I setup the League Website for my son's Babe Ruth league on ReadyHosting.com. Now that he is in High School, I've done the same thing for the High School team. If you go through a hosting company, you have the freedom to make the site what you want it to look like. Eteamz, or Home Teams Online or others like them will force you to conform to their layout. They do provide alot of tools for you, however. If you want to discuss this further, send me an e-mail...\n\nEteamz\nhttp://eteamz.active.com\n\nHome Teams Online\nhttp://www.hometeamsonline.com\n\nReady Hosting\nhttp://www.readyhosting.com\n\nMy son's High School Baseball Site (ReadyHosting)\nhttp://www.pioneerbaseball.org
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Try a baseball card shop.
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Contact the Team you want to build it for, or their major league counterparts front office.\nConstruction company
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Start off by volunteering at a HS or little league team. \n\nOr if you are in college, get in touch with the school team and see about being a manager and there you can get a lot of good knowledge by watching all the practices.
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Well, first you must register your trademarks in order to protect its use.\n\nThen you must develop a business model in order to attract potential clients interested in franchising your business.  You must determine certain issues like the look of the business areas, colors, materials, etc.\n\nThen the most important, you must have a competent lawyer in franchising or commercial/business law draft you a franchise contract that addresses all the issues you have determined in the model, exactly how you want your franchise to be run.\n\nAn expert consultant could also give you more detailed insight into franchising.