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I also ump high school on Long Island (Eastern Suffolk)and our association instructs both umpires to check the equipment together before school games, not one does one team and the second ump does the other. In my first year doing travel, I learned that equipment is not checked. None of the summer leagues ask the umpires to inspect equipment. I perhaps have seen one maybe two umpires check. I am not sure what the liability is. Even after asking if the players are properly equipped, I have seen batters come to bat with big cracks in their helmets (they were removed, of course). However, the liability question needs to be answered.
Ed Hernandez
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