Law Protects Youth Sports Officials and Coaches: As a youth baseball umpire, I am especially interested in this story out of Alabama. A concerned legislator helped pass a law two years ago that increases the punishment for any fans, parents or others that harass, menace, threaten or batter an umpire or coach. Thus far, the law has not had to be used, but it should make the men in blue feel a little safer.

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