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Joe -
Get command of the rulebook. Step behind the plate with confidence - despite your trepidation when you move from your feelings when you put on your gear to the so-different view you will see when you first stand behind the catcher. Let the game come to you. And realize every single poster on this board stood, once, where you will stand.
Call your game, and remember the rules you seem to know well as a base umpire are the same rules under which the game will progress when you are plate ump.
Above all tell NO ONE this is your first game as plate ump. Except your partner. And if he is not a veteran only tell HIM when the game is over!
Let us know how it went, our friend.
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