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Old Thu Jul 10, 2003, 10:57am
mick mick is offline
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chris s,
This is how LL fixed the problem.
The rule is quite comfortable to me at most levels.
They specifically address and discard 'lettering' on a batter's glove worn by the pitcher, but not the pitcher's glove.
I hold the trademarks as moot.
mick


RULE 1.15(A) - LEGAL GLOVES FOR PITCHERS CLARIFICATION
Parts (a) and (b) of the rule now read:

(a) The pitcher's glove shall be uniform in color, or of varying shades of the same color, and may have contrasting stitching, lacing, and/or webbing, providing the glove, lacing, or webbing is not white or gray.

(b) No pitcher shall attach to the glove any foreign material of a color different from the glove. The pitcher may wear a batting glove on the non-pitching band under the pitcher's glove provide the batting glove is not white, gray, or optic yellow.

Paragraph (a) was rewritten in 2002, and has been re-rewritten in 2003 to make absolutely clear that two-tone gloves are, indeed, legal for pitchers. In addition, the phrase permitting batting gloves was added to Paragraph (b) this year.

Also note that, at a Southern Region umpire clinic, Andy Konyar explicitly said that it was the color of the batting glove that was important, not the color of any writing on the batting glove. Thus, a black batting glove that has some white writing on it would be legal.

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