New Balance plate shoes

[Rich]

Originally Posted by RPatrino

What are you doing over here Rich??? And besides, the N on both my NB plate and base shoes looks gray actually. I have association mates that consider themselves SB umpires only, and would never be caught dead with any thing but black shoes. They still assign me my 3 or 4 softball games a season and never mention my evil baseball shoes. I make two concessions to SB though, no number on my shirt and a gray ball bag.

Silver-ish, actually.

I'll work a softball game, but I'm not sure how my black shirt, number, silver N, black ball bags, and point-to-the-side strike mechanic would be received. Oh, I wear a helmet with no hat, too....is that a big deal in the world of softball?

(Actually, I worked softball for a while and had good success and enjoyed it when I had good pitching. Once I started working college baseball, though, something had to give, and softball was it.)