District 59 San Jose Ca.: Umpires

Saturday, January 13
2007 District 59 2-Umpire Mechanics Clinics
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With the new year arriving, the 2007 season is quickly approaching with many Leagues opening the Regular season by the third week of March. To help prepare the League's volunteer umpires, District 59 will be conducting five Basic Umpire Mechanics clincs throughout the District.

The training consists of classroom-style instruction, field work, and cage work used for plate mechanics (all male participants are required to wear a protective cup for their cage instruction). The student umpire will learn about proper attire, equipment, hand signals, postioning, verbal and non-verbal communication, principles of umpiring, umpire rotations, handling situations, and responsibilities associated with umpiring a Little League game.

Each clinic is 7-hours of instruction and lunch will be provided by the hosting League. Below are the dates and the hosting Leagues.

   DATE                LEAGUE                   FIELD
February 11, 2007    Evergreen LL          Leyva Middle School
February 25, 2007    Oakridge LL
March 4, 2007       Milpitas South LL    Milpitas Sports Complex
March 11, 2007       Oakgrove LL          Stienbeck School
March 18, 2007       Berryessa LL

Ron Roberts
District 59 Umpire Consultant

2007 Monday Night Rules Clinic
Need help understanding a Little League Rule? Then come to the District 59 Monday Night Rules Clinic at Ida Jew Middle School located at 1966 Flint Avenue in San Jose. Class starts at 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM through March 5th and then 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM beginning in March 12th.

Each class covers a specific rule (or portion thereof) followed by an open forum discussion and a Q&A session. See the schedule below for the upcoming classes.

February 26 - Rule 1.00 Objectives of the Game
                         Rule 9.00 The Umpire
March 5 - Regulation VI - Pitchers (the New Pitch Count Regulation)
                   Rule 8.00 The Pitcher
March 12 - Rule 2.00 Definition of Terms
March 19 - Rule 3.00 Game Preliminaries
March 26 - Rule 4.00 Starting and Ending the Game (sections 4.01 - 4.08)
April 2 - Rule 4.00 Starting and Ending the Game (sections 4.09 - 4.19)
April 9 - NO CLASS Spring Break
April 16 - Rule 5.00 Putting The Ball In Play - Live Ball
April 23 - Rule 6.00 The Batter
April 30 - Rule 7.00 The Runner (sections 7.01 - 7.08)
May 7 - Rule 7.00 The Runner (sections 7.09 - 7.10)
May 14 - Rule 7.00 The Runner (sections 7.11 - 7.15)
May 21 - 2007 Tournament Rules
May 28 - NO CLASS Holiday
June 4 - 2007 Tournament Rules

Sunday, January 14
***ATTENTION*** Clarification of 2007 Pitching Rules for Junior, Senior, and Big League
 

Clarification of 2007 Junior, Senior, Big League Baseball Pitching Rules


For the 2007 season, Rule 3.03 (c) as printed in the 2007 Big League Baseball Rules is not applicable. This rule, which was to have been omitted, but was inadvertently left in the books, states: “A pitcher remaining in the game, but moving to a different position, can return as a pitcher anytime in the remainder of the game, but only once in the same inning he/she was removed.”

As a result, Rule 3.03 (c) for Big League Baseball is superseded by Regulation VI (b) which states, “Junior, Senior, and Big League Divisions only: A pitcher remaining in the game, but moving to a different position, can return as a pitcher anytime in the remainder of the game, but only once per game.”

There also is a similar reference in Rule 3.03 (3), referring to Junior, Senior and Big League. That reference also is not applicable.