looking at Babe Ruth or Ripken
Interesting question not answered: what happens to all their assets. Including all the monetary donations? I know it should be spelled out in their constitution but I could not find it online anywhere.
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Also I think there maybe LL provisions that allow others to step in and continue on and assume the assets of a league who attempts to leave LL. If that's true this could get real messy as the league received about 200k in donations after the tourney.
It's been ten years since I've been involved with LL. At that point in time the rules stated the assets remain with the charter not move with the people. A new group has the option of restarting the league. They are entitled to the assets.
RJM that what I believe. I did see something that allowed the charters to spell out what would happen to the assets if they dissolved. As LL has to approve charters I would guess they have standard options you can put in your charter.
Like you it's been 5 years since I've been involved with LL.
Just did a quick google search. If the league dissolves and no one steps forward to continue a league the board is entitled to direct the assets to another federally incorporated concern providing same or similar service to the community. If at least one person steps forward and wants to attempt to continue the league the assets stay with the person attempting to keep the league alive
League around me left LL international. From the outside, it looks to me like they kept everything.
As for JRW, LL has dissolved their district and teams have been distributed to surrounding districts.
When a league is dissolved it doesn't mean it can't return. Long before we moved where my kids grew up the town left LL. They had their own independent program. It became part of Ripken during my board tenure. While a lot of town kids played Ripken the town was divided among three bordering LLs. My son played for one of the LLs when he was eleven and twelve.
Back when he was seven we (the town indy program) attempted to rejoin LL. The first problem was two of the three LLs that inherited part of our town refused to surrender the territory. The other issue was in order to place LL under our youth sports organization (baseball, softball, basketball, football, soccer, field hockey, street hockey) we would have had to rewrite the charter to comply with LL.
From having been involved in both youth environments I would say Ripken is a much easier organization to deal with in terms of running your league. The problem with Ripken is the lack of rules when the wrong people take charge locally. It's why we left for LL. The allure of LL is the all star run if your program is competitive. My son's LL all star teams played into August both years.