This rule is routinely ignored at the local level in my area, and at District Tournament level. If you make it to the State tournament and beyond it will be enforced.
I got black balled by a league last year by insisting that a non-adult "coach" wear a mask to warmup a pitcher, in two separate games. They claimed he was a coach and the league commissioner approved, but he was 16 and I refused to let him warmup without a mask. The league agreed to enforce the rule with all their coaches, for non-adults, but I was gone.
It happened a week before Legion ball started so it didn't break my heart.
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