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Old Sun Apr 06, 2008, 02:18pm
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Originally Posted by HokieUmp
Personally, I would have substituted "LL" with, say, "rec ball." That way, no one group is more or less insulted than they should be.

I try to remember that at associaton meetings because the local LL assignor is a member or our group. But it has become an ingrained habit that is proving hard to break.

Most of us who refer to LL umpires use the term as a generic one for little boy ball. Like it or not, in many place of the country Little League has lost it's control of its brand much like Kleenix, Xerox and Asprin.
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