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Both MLB and the NCAA contain some useful and specific guidelines for their umpires to follow, and for the most part these guidelines will hold you in good stead for just about any youth, scholastic, or amateur contest:
NCAA guidelines:
A) Use of profanity specifically directed at an umpire or vulgar personal insults, including accusations of bias, or cheating.
B) Deliberate physical contact with an umpire.
C) Refusal to stop arguing, and further delaying the game after the umpire has provided a player or coach adequate opportunity to make his point. The umpire should warn the player or coach that he has been heard and should return to his position or the dugout or he will be ejected.
D) Arguing balls and strikes (including check swings) after being warned.
E) Use of gestures (e.g. jumping up and down, sliding on the ground, or violently waving arms) while arguing with an umpire, or stepping out of the dugout and making such gestures toward an umpire.
F) Throwing uniform items, equipment or other items while arguing or from the dugout.
G) There are other specific actions listed in the NCAA Baseball Rule Book that result in immediate ejection. These violations include a pitcher intentionally throwing at a batter, a runner flagrantly colliding with a fielder, bench jockeying etc. These rules are to be enforced strictly as written.
And the MLB guidelines, from the MLB Umpire Manual:
Use of profanity specifically directed at an umpire or vulgar personal insults of an umpire are grounds for ejection.
Physical contact with an umpire is a ground for ejection.
Refusal to stop arguing, and further delaying the game after the umpire has provided a player or manager adequate opportunity to make a point, is a ground for ejection. The umpire should warn the player or manager that he has been heard and that he should return his position or be ejected. If a player, coach, or manager leaves his position to argue balls and strikes (including half swings), he should be warned to immediately return or he will be automatically ejected.
During an argument if a manager, coach, or player makes reference to having observed a video replay that purportedly contradicts the call under dispute, such person is subject to immediate ejection from the game.
Use of histrionic gestures (e.g., jumping up and down, violently waving arms, or demonstrations) while arguing with an umpire, or stepping out of the dugout and making gestures toward an umpire, are grounds for ejection. Throwing anything out of a dugout (towels, cups, equipment, etc.) is a ground for automatic ejection.
Actions by players specifically intended to ridicule an umpire are grounds for ejection. Examples include drawing a line in the dirt to demonstrate location of a pitch or leaving equipment at the plate after striking out with less than two outs.
Throwing equipment in disgust over an umpire's call may be a ground for ejection. In some situations, the umpire can warn the player and cause a fine to be issued for throwing equipment, but if the umpire deems the action severe, the umpire may eject the offender.
Any player, manager, or coach who fails to comply with an order from an umpire to do or to refrain from doing anything that affects administering the rules and regulations governing play is subject to ejection in accordance with Official Baseball Rule 9.01. Examples of this include failure to stay within the lines of the batter's box after warning from the umpire, refusal to submit a piece of equipment for the umpire's inspection, etc.
While the standards listed here may justify an ejection, Official Baseball Rule 9.01(d) grants umpires discretion to eject any participant "for objecting to decisions or for unsportsmanlike conduct or language." In addition, there are situations listed in the Official Baseball Rules and the Procedures and Interpretations portion of this manual that result in immediate ejection. These situations include violations such as arguing a "step balk," pitcher in possession of a foreign substance, batter charging the pitcher with the intention of fighting the pitcher, pitcher intentionally throwing at a batter after a warning, etc.
Hope this helps.
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