Board of Directors approve Experimental Sportsmanship Rules for Baseball

FRANKLIN-Effective immediately for the Spring 2004 Baseball season the MIAA Board of Directors approved the following 2 experimental Rules recommended by the Baseball Committee.

  1. Any coach ejected from a Interscholastic Baseball game will be suspended for the next 2 games.
  2. A Strike Two Program will be implemented:
    A baseball umpire must voice "strike one" when a warning for inappropriate comment or actions is warranted and that "strike one" will be recorded in the scorebook. If a "strike two" call is warranted, an ejection of the coach would occur.
    Exception: In the case of a flagrant unsportsmanlike infraction and/or physical assault an immediate ejection will occur.