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SSUA APPROVED ASSIGNORS
Bryan Andrea
608-415-2248
Walter Bentson
617-974-0704
Dominic DiMare Boston Umpires Assigning Group
617-413-3851
bostonumpireassigninggroup@gmail.com
Skip Crossman Boston Umpire Assigning Group (Summer Ball Only)
508-269-0750
Mike Fata
781-264-7549
Assignors are not employees of South Shore Umpires Association.
SSUA Umpire Rick Delvecchio selected Cape League’s top umpire of 2015
08/12/2015 5:25 PM – Rick Delvecchio has spent virtually his entire lifetime involved in baseball as a player, coach and for the past several years as an umpire. A Braintree, Mass., native and a former baseball and ice hockey player for the University of Connecticut, Delvecchio has been named 12th recipient of the Curly Clement Award as top umpire in the Cape Cod Baseball League for 2015.
“It’s an honor to be recognized with an award named after an umpire like Curly Clement,” Delvecchio said. “All umpires strive to be recognized, especially among your peers.”
Delvecchio is vice president of baseball operations at the South Shore Baseball Club in Hingham and was assistant coach for the East Cobb Baseball program of Marietta, Ga., one of the nation’s premier youth baseball programs.
“Rick is known as the ‘baseball magnet’ for his propensity of getting hit by baseballs behind the plate,” Cape League senior deputy commissioner Sol Yassaid. “But he’s a tough guy and never had to leave a game. Confident of his umpiring skills, Rick is in control at all times.”
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He played baseball at UConn and Northwest Oklahoma State, where he was a two-time All-American catcher and is the school’s all-time hit leader. Delvecchio is Braintree High’s ice hockey career scoring leader and was defensive standout and leader on the 1989 state champions. Robert “Curly” Clement worked as a Cape League umpire over a span of four decades and was inducted into the CCBL Hall of Fame in 2002. He umpired 16 NCAA Division I Baseball Regionals, several Eastern College Athletic Conference Division I Baseball Championships and two NCAA College World Series.
Affectionately known as the “Candy Man” because of his propensity for passing out candy to players, coaches and field managers during disputes, Clement’s final Cape League appearance was spent working home plate at the 2000 CCBL All-Star game. He died in 2006 after a long illness.
Previous Clement Award winners are Bill Fisher (2014), Pat Burns (2013), Joe Caraco (2012), Mark Ottavianelli (2011), Michael Sadowski (2010), John Leeds (2009), Harry Greer (2008), Tim Carey (2007), Peter Hall (2006), the late Jim McNally (2005) and Walter Bentson (2004).
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Shep Long a member of the SSUA recently completed the home base program. Shep recently emailed me with this thanks:
Thanks again for helping me publicize my fundraising run for the 2015 Run to Home Base. Thanks in part to the SSUA, I was able to raise nearly $1200 to help fight “invisible” war wounds such as brain injuries and post-traumatic stress.
I ran the entire race (9K, or roughly 5.5 miles) in full plate gear, and finished in 56:42.
Thanks to all my brother Umpires who helped me in this endeavor
MIAA Spring Newsletter
Please Review
2015 High School Rule Changes
MBUA — USES MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL RULES
CHANGES BELOW PLEASE (REVIEW)
1.16 Requires helmets for base coaches.
3.05 An existing pitcher who crosses the foul line is required to pitch to a batter, unless a pinch hitter or injury. If at bat or on base at end of inning, if he touches the rubber, must pitch.
6.02(b) Expanded from “stepping out of box” to include anything the batter does to cause the pitcher to balk. Balk nullified.
6.02(c) No longer requires the pitcher to pitch. Dead Ball. Umpire issues the batter a strike.
6.02(d) One foot in the batter’s box.
7.06 Interpretation: Any time a fielder “muffs” a play and he must chase after the ball, any subsequent contact that impedes the progress of the runner is considered to be obstruction.
7.13 Collision Rule at Home Plate.
8.01 Pitcher no longer required to have entire pivot foot in contact with the rubber.
8.02 Going to the mouth on 18′ circle no longer a ball. Wipe off is legal. Failure to wipe off first warning, then a ball.
8.02(b) Pitcher cannot attach anything to fingers, hands or wrists.
8.05(b) Pitcher can no longer fake to third.
8.05(d) Clarified that throwing to an unoccupied base is not a balk as long as the pitcher believed he had a play at that base.
9.02(c) Clarified a check swing appeal rule same as 7.10 appeal rule.
MIAA RULES FOR REVIEW
All non wood bats must be BBCOR certified.
Strike One, Strike Two Policy/Handshake Policy
DONATE TO PANZA FAMILY
For those of you that have asked how they can help, you can make a donation to to to In Memory Bob’s Panza’s Fund on GoFundMe Click on the Donate to the Panza Family
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SSUA INSTRUCTIONAL CAGE WORK
Would you like to be evaluated for free? Helped on you plate mechanics, Tracking pitches, getting in the slot…….. Let us help!!!!!! Members Only
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GENERAL MEMBERSHIP
MEETING DATES
The following 2016 Dates TBD SSUA Meetings will be held at the Weymouth Elks starting at 7:30 PM
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MEMBERSHIP DUES ARE DUE BY JANUARY 15TH 2016. PLEASE GET THEM TO AVOID LATE FEES……….Dues are $66.00!!!!!
UPDATED 8/13/2015
IMPORTANT INFORMATION PLEASE READ
Candidate Class will be held at Braintree High School starting in January 13,2016 . If you would like to be come a qualified baseball official contact Dom DiMare at ump1194@yahoo.com or 617-413-3851. If you are interested in joining SSUA, our next class will start January 2016. Class will run for eight weeks.
Class will be held in room 305 starting at 7:00 PM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- To promote the game of baseball by a uniform interpretation of the rules of baseball.
- To safeguard the integrity of the game and promote sportsmanship by way of training and instruction of this organizations members.
- To establish trust and respect for individuals who umpire baseball games by training officials to recognize and respect the interests of players, coaches, administrators and fans associated with every league organization and school that is serviced by this organizations members.
- To provide a proper forum for the purpose of open exchanges of ideas among the members of this organization.
- To provide competent, knowledgeable, qualified individuals to administer the rules of the game in a fair and impartial manner thereby instilling confidence in the integrity of the game by the general public and all players, coaches and league and/or school administrators.
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