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Amid increasing abuse, officials flee youth sports


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2022 Apr 23, 7:17, Atlanta
In this 2022 image released by Kristi Moore, Moore poses for a self portrait showing her bruised left eye, in Miss. On a play at second base, Moore called the runner safe. A woman watching the game thought the runner was out. She began screaming profanities, according to Moore. "I was maybe three steps off the field and she was there," Moore recalled. "And that's when she punched me." The woman was arrested and charged with simple assault. (Photo credit: AP)

When one looks at the ugly bruise encircling Kristi Moore’s left eye, it’s not surprising so many refs and umps are hanging up their stripes.

Why put up with incessant taunts and threats from out-of-control parents?

Why fret over potential violence — even the chance of losing your life — because someone thinks you blew a call at a 12-year-olds’ softball game?

America is facing a crisis in prep and youth sports, where fewer and fewer people are willing to take on the thankless job of officiating games.

“The veterans are quitting by the droves. They’re sick of it,” said Moore, who overseas fast-pitch softball umpires for the state of Mississippi as well as the city of Laurel. “When we work to recruit new people, get ’em trained, get ’em out there on the field, they’re three or four games in when someone gives them a good cussing out or an invitation to get their tail beat. They’re like, ‘You know what? I’ll go cut grass on the weekend.’”

Moore can certainly understand that sentiment.


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