Finding umpires is proving difficult for many schools this year.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Your son or grandson’s baseball games may be at risk this season because they’re aren’t enough umpires. One game has already beenPeople are pointing to frustrations over pay, per diem, administrative fees and even the length of some of the games. Now between Umpires sitting out, and not enough recruits , several umpires believe games will have to be rescheduled or cancelled.
“These superintendents are calling and telling these coaches to go find some umpires. I don’t care what you pay. Some of these schools have called us and offered us one hundred dollars a game for a varsity game. Eighty dollars a game for a JV game, and if we go take it, then we are putting them in a bind and they are putting us in a bind.”
“They told us the Central Board has to make the decision and they couldn’t make any changes because if they did it for one sport they had to do it for all three seasons is what it amounts to,” said Butts. Alvin Briggs, AHSAA Executive Director, asked AHSAA Director of Officials Ken Washington to research baseball officials’ pay scales from other state associations and to present his findings and the possibility of pay raises for all AHSAA sport officials to the Board in January.
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