[NU Sports] Strike zones

[Roy Lamberton]

Little league umpires are all volunteers - they do not get paid except that each
league nominates them to work up through the various levels [District, State,
Region and the World Series.]

Our 10 Team Softball WS has 10-12 Umpires assigned and some are very very good
and some not so good. We have a couple of guys who watch the games and evaluate
the umps to figure out which will do the final 3 games [pool playoffs and
championship].

But they are in no way paid or "professional." They even pay their own way to
the WS sites.

BTW if you are a pin collector, the umpire pins are usually the best and hardest
to get.

rsl

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Roy S. Lamberton - Senior Associate
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> Just don't look 
> to your Little League to install it at the cost of umpteen 
> millions.  BTW, 
> the Little League World Series umpires were dreadful at 
> calling balls and 
> strikes.  Don't say they are amateurs because they are not.  
> Those guys work 
> and study for years before they make it to Williamsport.  
> Each man has 
> thousands of games under his belt at all levels of play. 
> 
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