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Old Mon Dec 17, 2007, 09:10pm
MichaelVA2000 MichaelVA2000 is offline
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Originally Posted by NewNCref
For softball, I umpire with many guys with facial hair, and no one has ever said anything about it. For basketball, I can't think of many people with facial hair.

And JRut was right earlier. There are several African-American guys in our association, many of whom call varsity games, who have facial hair. This does just seem to be a hang-up of Caucasian persons.
I asked because I belong to several associations and some of them have no issues towards facial hair while others will restrict the level of ball you officiate if you have facial hair; no matter what ethnicity you are.
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