Misfits

The CSSA Softball August 2024 Board Meeting was held on Monday, August 12th, 2024.

Attached are the Minutes from the meeting.

It’s that time again! The CSSA Fall Charity Golf Tournament will be held at Towne Lake Golf Club on October 28, 2024. You can register online at www.cssasoftball.us, then click on Registration Forms. Registration on day of will begin at 7:30am and Tournament will begin at 9:00am.

For more information regarding the tournament, you can call Tom Cameron: 404-918-0500.

We need hole sponsors. If you are interested in sponsoring a whole for the tournament, please contact Norman Thiem: 770-757-8467.

We look forward to seeing you there!

It is with sadness that the CSSA Family shares the news of the passing of Ruby Thiem (Norm’s mom)

All of us in the CSSA send our deepest condolences to Norm and Thiem Family.

Below is a link to the obituary.

https://www.cainfh.com/obituary/Ruby-Thiem

As recently announced, the proposed additional Thursday Night league took a large step towards existence when CRPA agreed to rent us a field at Hobgood Park. And, as previously communicated, the intended skill level to qualify for this league is for those players participating in the “Masters”, “Legacy”, and “Gold Legends” leagues, allowing those players the opportunity to play more than one night per week. (Note, the current Thursday Night Skip Wells League is not affected.)

*The first activity for this new league will be an “Open Practice”, scheduled for Thursday, August 22nd, starting at 6:00 pm on Field #4 at Hobgood. * All eligible players (primarily from the leagues mentioned above) interested in playing in this league and participating in the scrimmages this Fall 2024 Season are encouraged to attend the first practice.

And, for the Fall 2024 Season, the new Thursday Evening league will be played as weekly scrimmage game(s), prior to moving forward and formalizing the new league. That way, we can accurately gauge interest in the new league, determine the skill level for the new league, and search for a prospective League Director and Team Managers.

We look forward to seeing you on August 22nd at the first league event.

As the CSSA Board continues to build out the proposed new Thursday Evening league, we’d like to provide a quick update to those who may be interested in playing.

• First, we will follow the highly effective model used by Marty Aftewicz when he built the now very successful “Dreamers” league. Therefore, for the Fall 2024 Season, the new Thursday Evening league will be played as weekly scrimmage game(s), prior to moving forward and formalizing the new league. That way, we can accurately gauge interest in the new league, determine the skill level for the new league, and search for a prospective League Director and Team Managers.
• We continue to look for someone to lead the weekly game(s) and we are actively finalizing a location for the weekly scrimmages, potentially either Hobgood Park or Skip Wells Park. We anticipate the weekly scrimmage(s) to start at 7:00 pm and 8:15 pm, assuming there are enough players for two games.
• Currently, the intended skill level to qualify for this league is for those players participating in the “Masters”, “Legacy”, and “Gold Legends” leagues.
• However, as we progress with the Fall Season scrimmages, we will look at the response at each skill level, and then, if/when the league starts in the Spring of 2025, we’ll adjust and finalize the maximum skill level to fill at least four teams.
• As a reminder, the current Thursday evening “Skip Wells” league is geared towards those players who play in the Tuesday evening “Patriots” league.

More specific details on how to register for the weekly scrimmage game(s) will be shared as we get closer to starting the games, probably about the second or third week of the regular Fall Season.

Stay tuned for more information!