More background check incidents....

[MD Longhorn]

I'm not a fan of BC's in general, especially if the umpire is forced to pay.

However, I do believe that the mere fact that they ask for a BC will at least chase away the prior offenders who know they will come up negative on a BC.

This - "ASA (Amateur Softball Association) is the only group I know" performing background checks of game officials." however - is simply not true. USAV (that's volleyball) also performs background checks, and does a more thorough one than the traditional BC.