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Uniforms are free to PBUC and the umpires pay for their own equipment. Let me say that again...uniforms cost PBUC nothing, but the umpires must buy their own facemasks and other incidentals every year.
That's is a surprise to me...back in my day, I recieved almost all of my gear free. Buck Parsons at +POS was only too happy to have us sporting the top gear. I'm sure I helped him sell a lot of equipment whenever I worked or taught classes.
I have a couple of friends who just got out and one who finished school within the past two years. All are working games as replacements. We correspond regularly, so I posed this question to them earlier today. Did you buy all of your gear when you were working in the Minors? All of them purchased some gear on their own, but they recieved masks, CP and shin guards from various vendors gratis. Maybe what they did was a breach of code, but if Gerry Davis or Dick Honig hand you a $100 mask and tell you it is for free, you smile and say thank you.
Anyway, things may different for you. I don't claim to know it all, just some interesting tidbits every now and then.
SDS - He wasn't talking to you. (grin, chuckle, snort)
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