Elka Stein Chairperson The Board of Directors meets at least three times a year in various locations. Refer to the Calendar for upcoming meetings.

Major actions by the Board in 2000

• Approved a permanent LinkExchange banner on the Casey at the Bat Main Plate

• Approved website sales of Casey at the Bat T-shirts

• Re-affirmed policy that memberships dues are optional

• Approved 6-month renewal of contract with IDS for statistical data service

• Formed Committee to study feasibility of Real-time Interactive Cosmic Baseball Games

The concept of "membership" at the Cosmic Baseball Association continues to be evaluated by the Board of Directors. A final report on the nature of membership at the CBA, scheduled to be released during 2000, was delayed and is now scheduled to be released in the Spring of 2001.

In 2000 membership increased to 2,614. The Board of Directors re-affirmed the policy of making membership dues optional. The consequence of that policy is that only about 1% of the membership pays dues. One of the factors being studied in the evaluation of the membership program is the relationship between member services and dues. Because the membership program generates so little revenue very little beyond a membership ID number and a digitized membership logo is offered to members. The possibility of a two-tiered membership program is one of the options being evaluated: dues-paying members would receive extended benefits such as T-shirts and team caps in addition to the valued ID number and logo. Non-dues paying members would continue to receive the ID number and the logo.

A secondary function of the membership division is to field the variety of questions, mostly via e-mail, that are sent to the CBA. The 2000 year saw a dramatic increase in the number of queries. Of course membership queries are given priority. Over eight thousand requests for information were received and answered; about 14% of the requests came directly from members.

Estimates of membership growth for 2001 are in the 10-15% range and CBA will do its best to be responsive and helpful to the growing number of members.

CBA Annual Report, Page 4

2.     Because the single most important commodity we transact for is basic time, and since the value of time fluctuates, sometimes radically, it is difficult to accurately assemble realistic budgets that will conform to reality over any given time.

3.      The Cosmic Baseball Association is not strictly speaking a business enterprise and therefore it is not subject to the ways and means of an organization trying to make money.

4.     The biggest expenses for the Cosmic Baseball Association are the fees paid to our internet service providers (ISPs). Our primary service provider, Verio (nee clark.net) radically increased their storage fees during the past year. As a result a decision was made to transfer some of the website to other less costly providers. An additional expense is the cost of the statistical information we receive from IDStat. Because of the unstable financial condition of the Cosmic Baseball Association most staff and associates work on a volunteer basis.

5.    The primary source of money flowing into the Cosmic Baseball Association comes from membership dues, T-shirt sales and random contributions from friends. The total of these funds amounts to approximately 2.2% of total annual expenses.

6.     A detail of income and expenses is available upon request by sending an email to the Chief Financial Officer.