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In FED, the only restrictions on gloves/mitts are dimensions, and for the pitcher, colors. And that a glove/mitt SHALL be worn.
"--he then "black-balled" me from his team's games--"
Your association needs either an assignor with guts, or stricter rules on "blackballing".
In the associations I belonged to, ONLY the AD could make the request to not assign an umpire. Then, it had to be written, and with specific reasons.
"My coach doesn't like the way 'Ulysses Umpire' calls his/her games".
"Tough luck, coach. If you can't list rules misinterpretations, etc., there will be no restrictions on good old 'U U '."
I was the assignor for our softball association for a few years, and this is the way we operated. No valid reasons, no red-lining.
"I guess it shouldn't surprise me how all too many of
these high school coaches do not know the rules !!"
Many of them won't believe you when you show them the rule involved. Some will read the rule until the part that validates their complaint. But they don't keep reading to see the exceptions. The HS coaches I used to 'love' were the ones who managed/coached in Little League, and believed FED played by the same rules. I had a first-year frosh softball coach try to re-enter a starter in a different slot in the batting order. I kept telling her that it wasn't legal. Then I realized she probably had managed/coached in Little League, and told her that she couldn't do it, because it meant a forfeit, and that I would show her, and explain the rule after the game. Even after I showed her the rule book, she still couldn't understand.
I had a VARSITY coach try to convince me that the Infield Fly Rule was to protect the infielders, NOT the runners.
OH WELL!!
Bob
[Edited by bluezebra on Mar 25th, 2005 at 06:00 PM]
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