Question
The color of the pitcher's glove
The ump screamed at my 12 YR old daughter for having white on her glove.Made her use someone elses glove and really freaked her out. I looked at the L L rule book and it does say it can't be exclusively white.I looked up the specs of her glove and the colors are cream/black. The glove is a L S Zephyr and was sold as a pitchers glove. Should I get a new glove or just keep a copy of the specs of the glove in her bag. If someone can be that threatened over the color Can I show her glove isn't white but. cream ? If they want to go word for word.. cream is not white. I hate being this way but to intimidate a kid is just WRONG.Just tell your concerns to her coach.
Answers (3)
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I have seen things like this happen in Major League games. Usually a player is wearing too much jewelry, has an untucked shirt. or something like that, and is distracting the other team, usually the hitter's backdrop. Usually it is the pitcher who is asked to change something. Most of the time this happens in MLB games because manager asking the umpire to require the change, not because of the backdrop but more to annoy the other team.
If a league uses white balls, I could see where they might ban white gloves, but that begs the question: shouldn't they also ban white shirts, pants and shoes? I think this "white thing" is one of the reasons that softballs are now yellow, in which case everything yellow should be banned too.
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ASA rules state that a pitcher glove that is one color cannot be white,gray or optic yellow and if multicolored cannot contain any of those colors. Rule 3, section 4.
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i dont think purple would be a problem. I pitch and have had light blue on my gloves before. One of the girls on our team who is a pitcher has bright pink on hers and there's never a problem. They don't like white because it looks to much like the ball.
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