Making the Softball Canada Casebook available as a free download is the best thing that has happened to our educational program in a very long time.

Now you and/or your study group have this important publication ready to use.

Please insure that everyone you know in the game is aware that the casebook is now available. It is less than 2MB in full size and about 1.2MB as a ZIP file.

It will be updated when required. Look not only at the yearly version number listed in the document (Version 10, 2006), but at the file name. Currently it is named casebook2006(1). You will see this file name change to casebook2006(2), etc if and as the changes are made and then uploaded to the Softball Canada website. 

You can download it at:

http://www.softball.ca/usr/documents/files/1002/casebook2006.pdf

The best feature is that it is electronically searchable. If you are pleased with the casebook's availability, please pass along your feedback to Softball Canada.

Many casebook decisions are made by the Softball Canada Rules Committee, the ISF, officiating publications, the casebook author, and the ODC. If you have a case play you would like to have considered to be added to the case book, please fill out the form on page 209 and send it directly to Softball Canada. It will be reviewed and considered for insertion. 

Undoubtedly, there will be some plays you disagree with. If you feel that one of the current rulings needs changing, requires more information, has mistakes, etc...........do not send those directly to Softball Canada but rather to your local park or district UIC and when appropriate, they will pass your thoughts along to your Provincial/Territorial UIC, who will forward them to Softball Canada.

It is important that Softball Canada receives positive feedback so they continue to keep this very important document up-to-date and available on their website... Your information and feedback is critical to the document staying current and keeping its reputation as a first rate publication in tact.

By studying and remembering the rulings and the thought process that led to the decisions, the case book will assist you to make those instantaneous decisions more correctly that are required in today's fast-paced game. The casebook is a document that can and will make a difference in your officiating experience. READ IT THOROUGHLY!

Although the casebook has forgotten to list the credits, one huge factor over all these years has been the contributions of the content author, Don (Casey) Bracey, a Level V umpire from Ontario.  

Additionally, thanks to the tireless work of Donna Ozarko in the Softball Canada office for the preparation of the document in PDF and to Bob Stanton and the entire ODC for making the casebook available to the membership at no cost.