The newly elected President of our town Rec league has made it his priority to cut league ties with ASA and to find some other ruling body. Our league has been formally affiliated with the ASA for about 20 years. This is documented in our league bylaws. He wants to remove any mention of ASA from our bylaws, and he is inviting several other umpiring organizations to our next meeting to give presentations.
I have been involved in fastpitch softball with my daughter for several years at the rec and travel ball level. Here in New England, it is my perception that ASA is by far the most prevalent umpiring organization, with NSA a distant second. I have never heard of a local USSSA fastpitch tourney, but that could just be my ignorance. We have a local boys Babe Ruth baseball league, but no softball.
Without getting into the politics and possible motivations behind such an action, I am interested in hearing your thoughts and opinions of ASA, NSA, USSSA, and Babe Ruth.
Why on earth would we want to bring in Babe Ruth to umpire our rec league (for example) when the travel ball circuit is primarily ASA?
I have been involved in fastpitch softball with my daughter for several years at the rec and travel ball level. Here in New England, it is my perception that ASA is by far the most prevalent umpiring organization, with NSA a distant second. I have never heard of a local USSSA fastpitch tourney, but that could just be my ignorance. We have a local boys Babe Ruth baseball league, but no softball.
Without getting into the politics and possible motivations behind such an action, I am interested in hearing your thoughts and opinions of ASA, NSA, USSSA, and Babe Ruth.
Why on earth would we want to bring in Babe Ruth to umpire our rec league (for example) when the travel ball circuit is primarily ASA?