Yeah, but it was enforced improperly here. The idea is that they can't have round circles (especially filled in ones) on the glove. Not that "Wilson" is yellow or that the lace is yellow.
I guess that the part that says, "Lacing shall not be the same color as the ball", doesn't really mean what it says?
There are NFHS instructional materials on this rule that specifically illustrate the glove's logo as being an issue.
The rule doesn't mention anything about "circles" or "especially filled-in circles". So how do you figure that's what they really mean?
If you read the rule, and if you have read the published interpretations of it, there's no way you can say that the logo or laces aren't to be taken into consideration. Both are specifically mentioned in the rule and in interpretive and instructional material.
Aside from the judgment of the actual color of the logo or laces matching the actual color of the ball- which neither of us could accurately address, since neither of us were there to see it- how do you figure that the rule was improperly enforced? I won't disagree that the rule is somewhat silly, or that some coaches will try to use it a ploy to get into a pitcher's head, or that some umpires are overly fanatical about applying it. But I can find nothing that supports any of the statements I quoted above.
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