Sponsorships of local Little League teams, such as TVALL by businesses in the community are vital to the financial health of many local Little Leagues around the world. The funds from these sponsorships help pay the significant costs involved in the annual activities of a local Little League.
There are, however, several guidelines that must be followed.
Sponsorship of a team in the Local Little League must be, for the sponsor, out of a sense of duty to help the community. While sponsorship does afford some benefits (detailed below), the higher purpose is to help the local Little League impart the values of teamwork, sportsmanship, and fair play to the children of the community, so that they may someday use these values in becoming good citizens.
Sponsorship of a team in the local TVALL Little League does not permit the sponsor to have any rights or responsibilities in the operation of the local Little League or any team in the local Little League, nor does the sponsor have any rights or responsibilities in the selection of managers, coaches or players for any team in the local Little League. The sponsor and the local Little League are independent contractors with respect to one another, and neither has any authority to represent or bind the other in any manner or to any extent whatsoever, except as specified below.
The sponsor has the right to use the following term in advertisements, posters, brochures, newsletters, etc.: “Sponsor of a team in the (Local Little League).”
Sponsorship does NOT give the sponsor the right to use the word “official” in connection with its sponsorship. Any reference to the sponsorship must make it clear that the sponsorship is with a team or teams in the Local Little League only, and NOT for Little League Baseball, Little League Baseball and Softball, and/or Little League International.