Equipment

[Steve M]

Originally Posted by Andy

What I have heard from some of the ASA honchos around here is that at a recent National Championship, the shade of heather gray on some umpires pants was noticeably different. They want all umpires at a national championship event to all purchase their pants from the same vendor so that the uniforms look...well, uniform.

What they did not consider, however, was the umpire that tries to get 10 years out of a pair of pants. If her shows up at a national championship and is asked about his pink-shaded, faded out gray pants, he can still say that he bought them from ASA and meet the requirement.

But they're politically correct - nevermind.

I have found - with ball bags - that the same color is probably going to be different, unless they have come from the same "lot" (I think that's the right term) of fabric. So, when I buy ball bags, I will buy two of a kind, at a time.