n the grabber I put "professional" in quotes. Those skippers do not coach professional baseball teams; rather, they make their living as baseball coaches — coaching amateur teams. I’ll drop the quotes from this point forward. In advance, I know my editor agrees with my position: Professional coaches rarely get tossed.

In Part I, I showed a video that demonstrated coaches can be civil while disagreeing with umpires; I demonstrated that umpires and coaches can have a professional relationship, emphasizing mutual respect, on the field. Umpires should also realize that a quick trigger or an unnecessary ejection could be damaging to the careers of both the coach (who will have to answer to a school or conference) and the umpire (who may get scratched or have to answer to an assignor, who frequently is hired by the schools).

Let’s shift to summer baseball.

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