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:eek:I was watching the Georgia/Louisiana 11-13 game and noticed at least one girl wearing what appears to be a rolled up bandanna. I thought that the LL use the same rules as high school for uniforms.:confused:

I noticed bananas watching the two final games and wondered the same.

LL has its own rule book.

I know that LL has it own rules book. I was referring to the rule about uniforms. I thought the LL rule was about the same as high school about bandannas.

What's the high school rule?

Rather than saying that one rule set was like another rule set, why not read the rule?

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No bandannas, multi-colors or knots.

Bananas are legal as long as they are yellow.:eek:

:(I no longer have the LL softball rule set and that is why I was asking.

You'd have to decide they were jewelry to ban them.

We have a saying in basketball: "If you weren't wearing when you were born, then it is jewelry."

MTD, Sr.

I would think the more pertinent question might be what is the LL rule? Is there no definition of legal headwear?

Most softball rule sets (ASA, NCAA, NFHS) have that definition; ball caps, visors, headbands. Most specify that handkerchiefs/bandanas and plastic visors are illegal. Not jewelry or an adornment, a defined (albeit optional) uniform part.

So you have to play naked? :D

1.11 (a ) (1) All players on a team shall wear numbered uniforms identical in color, trim and style. The wearing of hats or visors is optional for each player while on defense.

That's it. You'd have to decide that the bandana was jewelry.

1.11 (j) Players must not wear jewelry such as, but not limited to, rings, watches, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, nor any hard cosmetic/decorative items. This applies regardless of the composition of such jewelry, hard cosmetic item or hard decorative item. EXCEPTION: Jewelry that alerts medical personnel to a specific condition is permissible.

Never seen a hard bandana.

The rules instruction manual makes a referfece to the joke (their word) about anything you weren't born with.

OK, so it is your interpretation of 1.11 (a) that anything worn on the head that isn't jewelry is optional, that it isn't limited to hats and visors?

Suppose a player chose to place a beehive, complete with bees on her head. Since it isn't jewelry, nor a hard item, you would allow that, right? How about a paper plate with a banana and peanut butter sandwich? Or a Mexican sombrero; that's a hat, right, so she can wear it? Star Wars stormtrooper helmet?

Yeah, certainly extreme, and even foolish examples. But if you have no line drawn anywhere, then they should all be allowable. Unless you read 1.11 (a) to limit what is legal headwear.

Anything with a knot is "hard". :p

HS bans bandanas because they were/are considered gang related. I don't think LL has the same concerns.

The sombrero's a hat isn't it? If that's the team hat then it'd be OK.

Remember a few years ago when a HS track team somewhere got DQed because their sports bras did match?

No comment on not wearing anything you weren't born wearing - like clothes?

Sometimes people get way too anal about things of no consequence.

Not any harder than a braid in the hair. Gonna ban braids? :)

You should read some the posts by my fellow pervert (and I mean that in the nicest way, :D), Mark Padgett in the Basketball Forum. :p

MTD, Sr.

To address the initial question, LL softball rules are essentially baseball rules with minor modifications. They don't necessarily follow ASA, NFHS, or other softball organizations. Heck, they don't even recognize the ASA rule on bats like every other softball organization out there.

Yes, there is no reference to bandanas in LL softball rules. It simply says hats and visors are optional.

Again, I will agree to disagree that if hats and visors are optional, then anything else, such as bandanas, hair beads, sombreros, storm trooper helmets, and aluminum foil coverings are, too. Hats and visors are optional; I read that to be all inclusive of the complete list of approved headwear.

And, "hats" in all bat/ball games is universally limited to ball caps. Anything else is simply not a "uniform" part.