[gsf23]

Most of the SP umpires I know use the bill of the cap as the indicator to the height of the pitch. I set a mark at 12 feet on a wall, back off to about where I would stand as an umpire and then put my cap on so the bill was right at that mark. If the ball goes about the bill of my cap, I have an illegal pitch. you can even set it at the park using the backstop.

May not be the best way but it is consistent and I've never had complaints about it.

And do please get rid of "DEEP", there is no such thing as it crossed the plate but was deep. I once had a player argue about a strike I called. He kept saying that it couldn't be a strike because it was deep. I went to my bag, pulled out my rulebook, gave it to him and told him that if he could show me where it talked about the deep pitch then I would let him back in the game, otherwise he was sitting on the bench. He never did come back and apologized to me after the game.

[Edited by gsf23 on Oct 3rd, 2003 at 10:41 AM]