One for the Northern folks here
 

I'm talking north of the Mason/Dixon Line here in the East:

Latest date you have ever worked a regular softball game?

Was wondering as in our little neck of the woods here a small men's Fall Ball League started this year, and they are planning their playoffs to end - get this - on November 13! As I will probably be working that morning/afternoon, it will be way later than any game I have ever worked.

To put it in perspective, my high school VOLLEYBALL season will be over almost two weeks by then!! :eek:

Also, my first HS softball game this year was a JV scrimmage on....drumroll......March 28 - yes, close to 8 months of umpiring. I know all you Florida/California/Wherever guys are thinking "Wimps", but for us eastern boys thats one helluva long season!

First game was 22 February - HS Double-header.
Have a college camp in Georgia last day is November 13th.

Define "regular". I've worked SP fall ball into November, but this year I'll be finishing up with a FP deuce this coming Saturday.

Started:
3/19....college DH in CT. Snow flurries for both games....but we got lucky....both games were 4 1/2 inning run rule games.
Ended:
Today 10/16..18u fall league DH that I worked solo.
7 months and 154 games is a long enough season for me.

Gave up doing men's fall SP last season. Working a 6,7,& 8 in the first week of November was not my idea of a fun evening.

Regular: a normal 7 inning game played in competition - as opposed to a practice/scrimmage, etc.

And Delaware is BELOW the M/D line! :p

You either need to get a map or learn how to read one.

I'm guessing that playing indoors doesn't count?
At the Adirondack Sports Complex (an hour north of Albany,NY), there are tournaments from Dec thru Feb.
It's nice to work those tournaments and be in mid-season form for the start of the HS season.

Well, MOST of Delaware is south of the Mason Dixon line. True?:confused:

oops - guess not!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...dixon-line.gif

No. Mason and Dixon were contracted to determine the borders between Maryland/Delaware and Maryland/Pennsylvania. By definition, Delaware is north (well, actually east) of the Mason-Dixon line.

Just south of the Mason Dixon (northern MD) but I worked a Thanksgiving fastpitch tourney a few years ago. It just happened to be warmish (50's).

The line actually extends to the coast, at Fenwick Island/Ocean City border. although not on red om that map.

Didn't you ever work that 16" winter league in the 90's?

There you go, we have a winner, East it is.

Mason and Dixon surveyed a lot of the area, not just the counties of PA and MD. However, the "Mason-Dixon Line" is usually defined as the Maryland/Pennsylvania State Line though at the time the task was commissioned, this was simply a land dispute between the Calvert (supposedly the heirs of Lord Baltimore) and Penn families. At that time, Delaware was considered the "three lower counties" of Pennsylvania.

Of course, most people don't know that the "state" of Delaware declared itself separate of not only the colony of Pennsylvania, but also the British Empire before the continental congress did in Philadelphia.