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Originally posted by BigUmp56
As with every year, the subject of the lack of competent umpires came up at both of our district meetings. We simply cannot cover all of these games. We try diligently to recruit other individuals to help us out, and cover these games, but we continue to fall short.
To improve on the situation, we are considering implementing a better junior umpire program.
Are their any well established junior umpire programs that you know of that may be able to help us along with guidelines to how their programs are run?
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We've tried several things to get a junior umpire program going. I'm assuming that you mean umpires age 14 - 18.
Paying them well is the only thing that has worked. That means $40-50 per game, not $15 - 20. For this price we require them to have proper uniforms, attend training, and show up on time. Even then, 50% of the umpires don't work out but we have plenty to take their place.