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My best recommendation for new umpires is to look on E-bay for your first set of gear. You can save 1 or 2 HUNDRED dollars by buying equipment from guys who umpired for one year and are then selling their stuff. I paid $88 w/shipping for a mask, pretty decent chest protector, and shin guards (with ball bag and indiclicker thrown in) my first year.
I kept watching on E-bay and got a pro-level set of shin guards for $28 and love 'em.
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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know. ~Socrates
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