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Any immediate family not of the same sex as the umpire or umpires using the umpires' dressing room shall leave the room at the request of any umpire if any umpire is dressing or undressing. All persons except official personnel shall leave the umpires' dressing room no later than 15 minutes before the scheduled starting time of a game.

At the completion of a game, the umpire crew chief may impose, in the discretion of the crew chief, a minute period during which no visitors except official WBCI personnel are to be allowed in the umpires' dressing room. All umpires shall adhere to any WBCI policies in regard to security. No umpire may, directly or indirectly, ask any player, manager, coach, locker room attendant or other Federation Team personnel for any autographs.

Similarly, Federation Team personnel, including any player, manager, coach or other field personnel including locker room attendants , are prohibited from providing umpires with autographs except as may be approved by WBCI. No umpire may ask for, take, sell or participate in or otherwise traffic in Team or WBCI property, such as baseballs, bats, uniforms, lineup cards and the like. No umpire may, directly or indirectly, validate or certify any baseball, bat, uniform or other object as genuine or as actually used in a game.

The first-round venues for the second running of the World Baseball Classic, which began on March 5, in Japan. The brackets were as follows:. The United States won the tournament for the first time in following titles by Japan in and and the Dominican Republic in A variety of newsletters you'll love, delivered straight to you. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses.

They have jobs back in France or wherever they live. To get that close and have it postponed. Some of them got kind of emotional. They broke down. It was tough. Originally, the main tournament next year was slated to be played in Japan, Taiwan, Phoenix and Miami, with three rounds to be held at Marlins Park, including the semifinals and championship game.

Those are still the probable sites in Whether the same format will be used in the qualifiers is still to be determined. The qualifiers were played in different parts of the world rather than one place in Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.

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