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Commandment
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| 1 |
Keep your eye on the ball.
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| 2 |
Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
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| 3 |
Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
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| 4 |
Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
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| 5 |
Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
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| 6 |
Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
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| 7 |
Watch your language.
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| 8 |
Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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| 9 |
Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
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| 10 |
No matter what your opinion of another umpire, never make an adverse comment regarding him. To do so is despicable and ungentlemanly.
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The 10 Commandments of Umpiring by Ford C. Frick
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