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Originally Posted by blueump
Apparently those are not enough. This JR that everyone is referring to: what's its unabbreviated title, and where can I get one? What other reference materials would a High School umpire consider "absolutely necessary" to improve themselves?
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Reference attached for the purchase of J/R
http://www.rulesofbaseball.com/
NOTE: It's next to impossible to get the Major league baseball Umpires manual referred to as (MLBUM) or Jim Evans annotated (JEA). One must attend PRO School in order to get these materials. In other words one cannot purchase these materials on line as they are not distributed to the general public.
In addition to the J/R the other most notable books are the PBUC manual which you can get on line and Carl Childresses Baseball Rule Differences (BRD) which you can purchase at Officiating.com
Reason for supplemental materials.
As you have already encountered simply reading the OBR rule-book is not enough. It is poorly written and indexed and does not tell the 'complete story"
Case and Point. In order to fully understand the appeal process one needs to know which type of "action" (ie relaxed vs. unrelaxed) is going on. The terms Relaxed and Unrelaxed are not mentioned anywhere in the OBR rule-book.
By purchasing the materials mentioned above, there are case plays (ala the FED case book) so the reader can understand the rule. What better way to understand something then to have case plays to read.
FED / NCAA have their own rule interps. Each has a case book to explain THEIR sets of rules.
Pete Booth