Use of Protective Equipment


As a general rule, USSSA continues its long standing policy of permitting baseball
and softball players to determine the use of the protective equipment when they deem it appropriate.
Game conditions (temperature, equipment, rain, wind, visibility, field conditions, humidity, etc.)
vary greatly from game to game and from field to field. In addition, the relative and absolute experience
and skill levels of teams and players will vary from player to player and from team to team.
Thus, USSSA encourages players to utilize any protective equipment that they deem appropriate.
Such protective gear will be allowed in USSSA sanctioned play, unless by rule or by
director/umpire ruling such protective gear is disallowed as unsafe or as providing an
unfair competitive advantage.