Cranberry Township Athletic Association
Umpires
Coordinator: Scott Madeira
The CTAA employees youth and adult umpires for their in-house baseball programs in Mustang and Bronco. In order to be elligible to umpire a youth must be old enough to be elligible to play Pony League in baseball or Major Slow in softball. Initially youth umpires are assigned to umpire bases in the Mustang League, but as their experience contiues to grow they begin to take on plate responsibilites and move onto umpire Bronco 11 games.
During the winter the CTAA Umpire Coordinator, Scott Madeira, will schedule and hold several umpire clinics. At these clinics the umpires will cover the rules of baseball including the PONY Baseball and local CTAA modifications to those rules. At least one clinic will be dedicated to proper onfield mechanics and techniques.
Schedules
- Umpires_week_08_june_13 to_June_19_v2.pdf (last updated Thu, Jun 17, 2010 @ 9:50pm)
- Umpires_week_09_June_20_June_26_V4.pdf (last updated Tue, Jun 22, 2010 @ 9:33pm)
- Umpires_week_10_June_27_Jul_3_V3.pdf (last updated Tue, Jun 29, 2010 @ 7:26pm)
- Umpires_week_11_Jul_3_Championships v4.pdf (last updated Fri, Jul 02, 2010 @ 11:37pm)
Umpiring Links
- The Official Rules of Baseball
- The 2010 PONY Rulebook
- CTAA Policies and Procedures
- CTAA Umpire Clinic Handout
- CTAA Umpire Waiver Form
Help with Rules
These sites can help umpires, managers, coaches, and parents gain a better understanding of the rules and why some calls are made.
- Jim's Rules of Baseball The purpose of this page is to provide answers and explanations to questions regarding BASEBALL rules, and make a rules video and manual available for purchase.
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- Including the The Top 40 Rule Myths
- eteamz Official Rules of Baseball Rules explained, umpire's helper explaing rules applied in various situations, and more.
- The Amateur Baseball Umpire Home Page Created by Brent McLaren who retired from umpiring in 2006, these pages are no longer being actively maintained, but still have some valuable information.
The Ten Commandments of Umpiring
- Keep your eye on the ball.
- Keep all personaliteis out of your work, forgive and forget
- Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
- Never charge a player, and above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
- Hear only the things you should hear -- be deaf to others.
- Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
- Watch your language.
- Take pride in your work at all times. Remember respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
- Reveiw your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90 per cent of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
- No matter what your opinion of another umpire, never make an adverse comment regarding him. To do so is despicable and ungentlemanly.
