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Originally Posted by bniu
Training purposes: umpires use it to study game situations that develop from a first person view, if they so choose to, it's mostly for liability.
Liability purposes: coach gets angry, coach hits umpire, parent comes on field and assaults umpire, basically all the situations where you wish you had a camera to record what actually happened instead of dealing with he-said, she-said. It's 2015, time to bring some technology into the game.
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Liability??!! Except for a coach getting angry (or a player for that matter) I've not had any of the other situations mentioned happen in a game I've worked. Not that it couldn't, but I'd have to say very rare.
If only for liability (lame excuse) having it on the mask is just silly, as others have pointed out.
If for training purposes, a camera mounted high up on the backstop fence would be more practical.
I don't know how expensive these things are, but police departments who have invested in body cameras need pretty big budgets.
Then there's the whole matter of having to watch/edit games for pieces of relevant games that are worthy of extracting for training purposes. That's a lot of time and I don't know how much money. Is the benefit worth the cost?