Originally Posted by outathm

This is how the assault went down. I should have included this in the original post:

Umpire had forfeited the game due to the coach's team only having 7 players. While the umpire was on the phone in the parking lot talking to the assigner, partner standing with him' the coach came out to the cars and was yelling at the umpire. The umpire told the assigner that he thought it would be a good idea for the assigner to come out to the park. When the assigner asked why the umpire held the phone out so that the coach's yelling could be heard clearly.

The coach then slapped the phone out of the umpire's hand.

At this point the umpire's eye's 'went blank' according to the partner and the umpire walked away.

As a further point of reference, the partner in question was a Jr. umpire and the umpire with the phone is a former Green Beret. I can only imagine what would have happened if the umpire had not regained composure and walked away when he did.

That evening the Board of the league met and took this coach's team from him and broke the team up into the other teams so that the girls could continue to play.

At the start of the Spring season the coach in question went to the Board and apologized for his actions. No apology has been received by the umpire.