Fun & Games at a "recreational" tournament

[greymule]

I remember playing in a bunch of one-pitch tournaments. The games go fast (obviously). Never encountered any of the issues Mike mentioned, though. I'm surprised that players wanted to leave 3B early, since the "one-pitch" stipulation doesn't affect distances or swings.

By the time I began umpiring, the one-pitch tournaments had pretty much disappeared, at least in the Soprano State.

For a while, "singles" tournaments were popular in central NJ, too. Games were on LL fields, and "home runs" were outs. Not easy to keep the ball in the park, and you had a good chance of keeping a team scoreless even when they had the bases loaded and no outs. Teams would play their outfields shallow, since it was so difficult to hit a ball over the outfielder but not over the fence. Never umpired a singles game, however.