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Originally Posted by BigTex
The same way they came up with black leather ball bags....someone at the lower levels of baseball will buy them. How many umpires at the upper levels of amateur baseball and in any level of professional baseball wear gray bags?
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While I am not worried about the leather bags becoming a standard at upper levels, I have seen plenty of NCAA Division 1 umpires wearing gray ball bags, as well as many HS umpires. And, I do remember seeing Bob Engel and Dutch Rennert both wear gray ball bags before.
Gray ball bags have traditionally been offered by all the major suppliers, right alongside the black and navy pro-style ball pockets. They have not been promoted separately as a novelty item such as the Honig's leather ball bags have been.