Gary DiFabio - WWUA 2020 Virtual Summit
Gary DiFabio joins Matt and Greg to discuss his time as a Collegiate Umpire.
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Gary DiFabio
LLWS 2016 and SoCal Collegiate Umpire
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal; It is the courage to continue that counts”
Gary DiFabio was born in Chula Vista, California to a Navy family and raised in Alameda California. He played high school and college baseball in his youth. After getting married and having children he began coaching his boys as well as being introduced to umpiring because of a shortage of officials. He quickly realized that he enjoyed umpiring and continued to explore the opportunity.
Gary has been one of the few “nonprofessional” umpires to have progressed to umpire Division 1 baseball but his route there started in Little League. Gary spent 25 years umpiring Little League baseball. At this point Gary was in his late 40’s and happy to be volunteering his time doing what he loved. Then he was approached by someone who was watching him umpire and asked him “are you interested in umpiring College baseball?” After umpiring nothing but Little league Gary took the leap to College baseball without ever umpiring even a High School game. Gary’s Little League journey culminated in 2016 when he had the honor to umpire in the Little League World Series in Williamsport. He worked the final championship game at 2nd base and acted as the crew chief for the World Championship game. This was the highlight of 40 years of volunteer service to Little League baseball.
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