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After considering your post, my first thought was that baseball officials are usually visible to the fans after a contest whereas basketball officials are usually not.

At the schools I work it is typical that a baseball umpire uses the parking lot for a changing room. You bring your gear in your car and change between the open front door and the open back door. Locker rooms are available, but the ball field is quite a distance from the actual school, so the parking lot is quicker and easier. Sometimes you park right beside a parent or coach! It makes it awkward at times, but that's the way things are done around here.

Basketball officials, on the other hand, usually have a room set aside for them inside the building. They often use back doors to leave by, and sometimes shower right in the same facility, thus the fans are gone before they are. They leave the floor immediately following the game and are not seen again.

Nothing set in stone...just my thoughts