Umpiring Baseball Canadian Style

[tiger49]

Originally posted by jicecone
, I recently was informed that Canadian Umpires stand 5-7 feet behind the catcher when doing the plate.

Many Canadians are used to having younger catchers that stand 5-7 feet behind the batter so a catcher that stands closer tends to throw younger umpires off. BTW Blaine can you please answer a small question as to why Baseball Canada wants us to use the 1B line extended for Fair/Foul in RF with a runner on 2B in the 2-man system?

[Edited by tiger49 on Jul 2nd, 2003 at 02:28 PM]