Thank's Kyle!
I really appreciate the input. We don't have winter baseball here though. The players have a hard time finding ground balls in the snow!
We'll have to start slow this spring as baseball starts up again and go from there.
We've discussed this in the past and there was significant resistance to using any players under 16 to work games. It just never took off like I had hoped it would. Last season the need for more umpires jumped dramatically in our area. We didn't retire many guys, but we took on another district near us to work games in.
I'm hoping to have a decent policy down by the second weekend in January to present to our association for approval. From there, if it's approved, we'll take it to the next district meeting and present it to the league presidents.
Hopefully they'll get on board with it, and help us out. After all, they're the ones who ***** the most that we don't have enough umpires to cover their regular season games.
Tim.