Umpiring is Life

[umpire08]

hello there all of you when did you guys leap into umpiring with both feet cause for me it was last year and I excelled at it how did you deicide that this was your career path thanks to all good night umpire 08 Deer Park Tx

[Kyle_Stevens]

I got into umpiring really because my dad has been an official for 30+ years, so I grew up with an officials view point of things. I was in college and needed some extra money and I love baseball. I really got into it and then I joined the military. I was in for 5 years and missed umpiring everyday. Once I got out I jumped back into it because I missed it so much. So for 5 years I read about umpiring, read the NFHS rule book and watched as much umpiring as I could. Then when I started back it was difficult putting all I have read into action. I don't know if I excelled or do excel at it. I do know that I work hard and hustle every play of every game and continue to learn every game from situations/partners/Umpire-empire.com. I did have a state tournament coach in the area tell me that he would have me any day for any game, this was even after tough loss to his teams rival, so I took that as a compliment. I just love umpiring.