JAMES P. MCCARRON

ELECTED: NOVEMBER, 1989

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

INDUCTED” NOVEMBER, 1990

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA

JIM MCCARRON, EASTERN REGION UMPIRE-IN-CHIEF, WAS INDUCTED INTO THE USSSA HALL OF FAME IN THE UMPIRE CATEGORY.

THE COLONIAL HEIGHTS, VIRGINIA RESIDENT WAS NAMED VIRGINIA STATE UMPIRE-IN-CHIEF IN 1978, WAS APPOINTED SOUTHERN DIVISION U-I-C IN 1982, AND ASSUMED THE EASTERN REGION U-I-C POSITION FIVE YEARS LATER.

HE TRICE WORKED THE MEN’S MAJOR WORLD SERIES, OFFICIATED AT THREE WOMEN’S CLASS”A” WORLD TOURNAMENTS AND TWO MEN’S CLASS “A” WORLDS. HE WORKED MORE THAN A DOZEN DIVISIONAL AND WORLD EVENTS, NUMEROUS NIT’S AND STATE TOURNAMENTS.

A LONG-TERM MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL PLAYING RULES COMMITTEE, MCCARRON EDITED AND HELPED PRODUCE THE FIRST USSSA UMPIRES CASE BOOK IN 1981.

A DISTINGUISHED SEMINAL SPEAKER, THIS VIRGINIAN CONDUCTED OR ASSISTED IN MANY NATIONAL UMPIRE CLINICS, DIVISIONAL MEETINGS, AND AT THE TRAINING SEMINAL AT NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS. HE HAS GIVEN CLINICS IN EIGHT STATES AND RECEIVED THE NATIONAL UMPIRE-IN-CHIEF’S AWARD IN 1983.

IN ADDITION TO UMPIRING, MCCARRON HAS SERVED AS AN AREA DIRECTOR AND ASSISTANT STATE DIRECTOR IN VIRGINIA AND HAS DIRECTED MANY LOCAL AND STATE TOURNAMENTS.