Learn to keep your glove up. I guarantee results on this one. Never put your catcher s mitt on the ground. What you do when you put your mitt on the ground is pick up a load of dirt. Can t be helped.
Baseball fields have dirt.
Your umpire certainly can t see a strike with dirt in his eyes. Never show up your ump. Here s ways to make your ump very unhappy by what is commonly referred to as showing him up . Remember, a happy ump is a consistent ump - if you give him something else to think about, he can t concentrate as well on your pitcher s strike zone. Never forget that there s a human being behind that plate, not a machine.