I've called from there a couple of times - both when I was asked to work and didn't have my equipment with me, and both with girls that could throw hard enough that I didn't feel safe back there without my equipment. I called a couple of 8U tourney games from there once quite a while back, but didn't like it and decided to go back behind the plate.
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"Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile." - Hall of Fame Pitcher Christy Mathewson
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