which gives game credit for anyone completing the training. Instructors include current Major League Baseball umpire Ben May, as well as umps who have worked varying levels of Little League World ...

The Detroit Tigers will be part of an MLB experiment using robot umpires during spring training games at Joker Marchant Stadium. The automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system uses cameras to ...

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Free umpire training for veterans and their families ... high school, and travel ball baseball/softball games. According to Protect The Game, graduates of the program ...

Through the Protect the Game program, military veterans are gaining purpose and giving back to the community by training as umpires for local baseball ... families get free umpire training.

Major League Baseball is preparing the automated ball-strike system, or ABS, for its biggest test yet this spring training ... challenges it can issue to an umpire, who will then rely on the ...

who was the last woman before Pawol to umpire a major-league spring training game in 2007. David Lennon is an award-winning columnist, a voter for baseball's Hall of Fame and has covered six no ...

Spring training presents players with an opportunity to work on aspects of their game that they otherwise wouldn't have time for in the regular season. After all, everyone wants to be sharp when ...