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Originally posted by PeteBooth
Originally posted by Carl Childress
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.)
Papa C, in FED rule 1-1-5, the following terminology is used:
When an umpire observes anyone who is required to wear a batting helmet deliberately remove his batting helmet while in live ball territory and the ball is alive (NON-ADULT BALL / BAT SHAGGERS required to wear batting helmit in live-ball area even if ball is dead), the umpires shall issue a warning to the coach
and
While in the crouch position, ANY NON-ADULT warming up a pitcher at any location shall wear a head protector, a mask with a throat protector and protective cup (male only).
The point of the above is that the FED explicily uses the term NON-ADULT in their wording, which to me means that adults are not subject to the same safety provisions as the ball players.
With that said, what's the difference between a coach warming up F1 (with no protection) and a coach who is in the box with crutches?. Both could result in injury, so why would Blue or the league be in jeopardy of a lawsuit when the FED wording regarding player and adult is exlplicit?
I'm assuming (boy that could get me in trouble), that the FED checked this wording out with the insurance companies before they wrote it.
Pete Booth
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Pete:
First, as I made clear in my post, the coach was in the Bronco division of Pony, Inc. I have never seen a high school coach in Texas with crutches or anything like crutches. Sorry, but the school board just wouldn't hire a coach who couldn't slide into second base.
Second, the danger of a non-adult on crutches is not what he might do to himself but what he might do to others. A coach warming up a pitcher without a cup or a helmet puts only
himself at jeopardy. A coach in the box with two metal crtuches puts everybody in jeopardy.
That's the difference, as I see it.