DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am on a team in an adult sports league. At the end of the season, the team decided to have a party. One of the members volunteered to host it, but then decided to invite other people who aren’t associated with the team.

The get-together is no longer a “team” party. Is it proper etiquette for someone who volunteered to host a party for a select group to invite her own additional guests?

GENTLE READER: No, but before she ruins the party, Miss Manners would like to check that we all know the score.

The team party was never going to be strictly members of the team, any more than non-players were barred from attendance at games. Even at practice, there might have been a coach, a groundskeeper and the guy with the keys to the clubhouse in attendance.

By similar logic, it

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