Umpires

CALIFORNIA DISTRICT 37 LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL

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Scott Tomlinson, Umpire-in-Chief

DISTRICT 37 UMPIRE SCHOOL

For all District 37
Baseball and Softball Umpires
Update and improve skills
Learn new rules - mechanics

First Thursday of every month 7:00 PM

Hawthorne Memorial Center
El Segundo Blvd and Prairie Ave
Hawthorne, California 90250

For more information please contact:

Mr. Scott Tomlinson
Umpire-In-Chief
California District 37

scott_tomlinson@hotmail.com

If you wish to become a Little League Umpire, please contact your League Umpire Director and consider attending the District 37 Umpire School on the first Thursday of every month!

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The 10 Commandments of Umpiring by Ford C. Frick (1949)
#	Commandment
1	Keep your eye on the ball.
2	Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
3	Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
4	Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
5	Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
6	Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
7	Watch your language.
8	Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
9	Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
10	No matter what your opinion of another umpire, never make adverse comment regarding him. To do so is despicable and ungentlemanly.
The 10 Commandments of Umpiring by Ford C. Frick