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Old Fri Mar 06, 2009, 07:25pm
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Working a conference tournament a few years back my partners and I had the first game. I decided and tried to convince my partners that we should wear shirts under our jackets. They said they were going with turtle necks only. I wore the shirt.

In the third inning it had gone from a windy 60 to a still 75.

I took off my jacket and got told by the UIC to put it back on so that we would look 'uniform'.

When we got into the room I took off my jacket and shirt and both made a loud 'SLAP' as they hit the floor. I had sweated through both of them. I HATE setting the dress code for all umpires off of what one guy wants to wear.

I was working First

Sorry for the rant.
Where would you put your jacket?
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Old Sun Mar 08, 2009, 08:47am
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Someone please provide the autoritative reference to "umpires should dress this way".
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Old Sun Mar 08, 2009, 08:57am
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I once saw both teams and all the spectators storm away because one umpire was wearing a windbreaker and the other took his off and got down to his uniform shirt. To most baseball people, it's unacceptable. This crowd was no different.
Plus, it totally screws up the entire crew's judgment.
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Old Sun Mar 08, 2009, 09:01am
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We changed our policy recently. Two man crews need to match...BU and PU...unles PU wears a traditional plate coat. In three man crews, and above, the BUs need to match.
That's what we do.


We have one local Legion tournament on the Fourth of July where, traditionally for the finals, the plate ump wears red, U1 wears cream, and U2 wears navy.
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