The Backyard Batting Cage

By Communications Division
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa.
April 17, 2012

The Little League International complex in South Williamsport, Pa., is hosting its annual Umpiring School this week, and like the Little League Baseball World Series that is played on the complex each August, there is an international presence among the umpires.

Nine of the 25 umpires attending the school are from Little League international regions. Umpires representing Canada, Puerto Rico and Australia are in attendance at the school.

One the umpires attending the week-long school is Atcheli Richardson from Brisbane, Australia, the first Australian to attend the school.

Mr. Richardson, who works for a gardening supply company, has been an umpire for 12 years working for the last five or those years with Little League Baseball and Softball along with the Australian Baseball Federation.

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