A first in my umpiring career

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Originally Posted by CecilOne

The highest heat index recorded in Mid-Atlantic was 123 on 7/15/95. Several of us umpired 3 games each in a youth FP travel tourney that day, although a few teams withdrew. The games were long, with extra dugout time and extra water time, but we did it. I've wondered a few times if games should have been cancelled, or if it was worth the minimal $. None of the fields had lights, so slipping the sched was not an option.

I was there C1. Daughter played and I was assistant coach of a rec All-Star team that decided to play some travel tournaments. We moved to Louisiana later that year. She played seven more years of travel ball and four years of college ball on the Gulf Coast -- but I was never so hot on a ball field as that day in 1995.