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Originally posted by bluezebra
Warren:
After a court ordered that this coach could wear his crutches in the coaches' box, and you refuse to allow him to do so, you are going to be one moneyless dude after you're sued.Bob
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Bob:
Gosh, 0 for March? Note: I had "grin" here, but I put it inside greater/lesser signs and it didn't print.
The court suit determined only that the State Association could not forbid him to coach in the box. It says nothing (according to what I read) about individual umpires and their judgment about the safety of the players.
We had a coach in one of my leagues who used two crutches as well. He had signed permission from the League because he had personally indemnified the league, its officers, umpires, and players: If he caused injury, he paid. (This was long before ADA, though.)
Was that fair? No. Kids simply wouldn't go near him, so when he was on the field, the game was not played according to the rules. After seeing him many times (I called usually on an adjoining field) my training schedule caused me to wind up in the Bronco park. I called 1/2 inning of one game and decided I wanted no part of it. The candidate umpire stayed to finish alone; he needed the money.
So, I took the coward's way out, but I was the UIC of the League and felt I owed some allegiance to the officers who hired me. At any rate, he stayed and I went.
In Warren's game, I bet it would be the other way around.
[Edited by Carl Childress on Mar 26th, 2001 at 04:16 AM]