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Originally Posted by CecilOne
Please explain !!
Probably more games for those of us who don't umpire LL, if all were in travel ball; but I'm curious about your reasons.
Is it because they can't get it out of the baseball minds?
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Softball appeared in the scope of LL when the courts ruled they had to accept females as players on the baseball team.
IMO, that was meant to achieve two goals:
Keep the girls off the baseball field and basically, "keep it in the family" when it came time to collect the money from the parents.
And yes, there are girls playing LL baseball, but not nearly as many as there would be had they not added softball.
I've said it before, if I had been king of the ASA, I would have attempted to negotiate with LL to cooperate with each other allowing LL to handle all youth softball for the 12U level and down and ASA take over at the 14U level and up. Share the registration fees and let ASA train the umpires whether paid or volunteer.
IMO, that would have been a win-win for ASA & LL.
Then again, what the hell to I know?
