Nets at Haverford on Wednesdays

You wouldn't know it from looking out the window but the 2009 season is just around the corner. Its all great fun playing cricket during the season, but that enjoyment doesn't come for free. You don't think new pitches get paid for by magic do you?! In response to the tough economic times (well not really) annual membership dues are the same again this year. Renewing players are $125, while returning students (or those not working right now) are $35. New members are $175 (students $60), but of course you get all that great kit... Send your checks made out to 'BOCC' and a completed membership form http://www.bocccricket.com/docs/BOCC%20Membership%20Form%20-%202009%20season.pdf to your humble Treasurer at 336 W Springfield Rd, Springfield, PA 19064 by May 1st. After May 1st if payment has not been received you will no longer be a paid member and able to set match availabilities.

Update: For those that have not paid I have removed their ability to set match availability. If you still wish to play this season get me a check. Or if I've made a mistake let me know.

Gents, the attachments are shortly to be emailed to every club in a 50-mile radius of Philadelphia. Much effort has been invested this winter to translate a wish into action. Please read and if you can, please get active for cricket in your own communities! Hope you will find the History notes interesting! In addition, Coaches are needed to craft a weekly roster through the summer - midweek afternoons or evenings and/or perhaps weekend mornings. A coaching manual is under development and it lends itself to many specific "skill/drill pods" that nearly anyone with experience of playing could lead. I don't need you to commit to a weekly regime, just an indication at this stage that you would be happy to be called on once a fortnight, once a month, 2-3 times a season, or whatever might fit your schedule. Now we don't know whether we shall see 15 kids or 50, or more. At the high end we will be scrambling and I shall return to the well! However for now I just need to get a feel for how much support our membership can give - so please email or call me (even if its "regrets"!). Thanks everyone!  Mike T.
Attachment 1: Letter to Editor 
Attachment 2: Handout Summary

Sitting at a long wooden table in Haverford's C. C. Morris Cricket Library, the largest collection of cricket literature and memorabilia in the Western Hemisphere, Alfred Reeves, 81, is dressed in an immaculate blue blazer. Reeves immigrated to the United States from his native Yorkshire in 1978 and eventually settled in Philadelphia. "I went for a walk one evening near the Merion Cricket Club [near Philadelphia], and I was sure I heard a cricket ball and bat," he recalls. "So I put my whites on and climbed over the wall of this famous cricket club, dropped on the other side and said, 'I just arrived from England. Do you mind if I join in?'"