A Muffley Family History

Arlington Little League Press Release     
18 August 2007     

Arlington Umpire Works the Southern Regional Championship

No, you weren't seeing things on August 9th - that really was Arlington Little League volunteer umpire Richard Muffley on ESPN! As described below in the official Little League press release, Richard reached the penultimate honor in Little League umpiring - umpiring in the Regional finals!

In earlrsm-umpire-2.jpg (24244 bytes)y August the Little League Southern Region Baseball Tournament in St Petersburg, Florida brings together state winners from the Virginias, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida and Alabama to determine the regional winner that will participate in the Little League World Series in Williamsport. Also taking part in the week-long Southern Region tournament are eight umpires from the represented states. These volunteer umpires are selected by Southern Region administrators in December from many applications submitted in October and they are evaluated for their performance during the event. The umpires participate not only for the excitement and enjoyment of working in higherrsm-umpire-1.jpg (39741 bytes) level games, but also in hopes of demonstrating skills and abilities commensurate with receiving a recommendation to umpire at the next level - the World Series.

This year Richard Muffley, an umpire in the Arlington Little League program since 1996, was selected as the Virginia representative for this tournament. Following successful performance in the pool play, Muffley received the second base assignment for the championship game, which was televised by ESPN on August 9th. Muffley also received a World Series recommendation for his overall performance and is eligible to apply to work in that tournament in coming years.

We congratulate Richard on his years of hard work and look forward to seeing him working games in the Little League World Series in the coming years. Arlington is lucky to have dedicated volunteers like Richard - and all of the other volunteer umpires that work all of our games.

Be sure to let Richard know how proud we are to have him in our league!