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Perhaps these days it is more important than before to wear umpire pants.
When I first started out in the '80s, very few umpires had actual umpire pants in my association. It wasn't until around 1990 that they started gaining in popularity, with a mid-90's shift to the majority of members wearing them.
I wore Sears heather gray dress polyesters for the first 5 years I umpired, because that was what was recommended to me by the leaders of the association when I started out, and was listed on the pre-season approved uniform list. Then in 1990, a fellow umpire showed me his brand-new Honig's plate pants, and I wore Honig's, +POS, or Fechheimer's ever since.
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