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In High School, legal or illegal for pitcher to wear compression sleeve on pitching arm only and sleeve is a solid color other than white or gray??

 

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In High School, legal or illegal for pitcher to wear compression sleeve on pitching arm only and sleeve is a solid color other than white or gray??

Legal unless you consider it distracting:

2014 interp:

SITUATION 17: The starting pitcher comes to the mound to take his warm-up throws to start the game. He is wearing a compression sleeve only on his throwing arm. The opposing coach demands that the sleeve be taken off before the pitcher may pitch. RULING: A pitcher may wear a compression or medical sleeve on one or both arms that is any color, including one that is white or gray, provided it does not extend below the elbow. A doctor’s signed permission slip is not required. If the pitcher wears a sleeve that extends below the elbow, it can be worn on either arm, provided it is not white or gray or have white/gray on it. It also cannot be of a color or color combination that would be deemed distracting by the plate umpire. (1-4-2; 6-2-1i)

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