Can a pitcher wear white sleeves?

Sleeves are optional, However the expossed portion of a team person's sleeves can be of only one color and must match the sleeves of teammates. MLB 1.11c.

Jaksa and Roder go onto say: Sleeves: the sleeve can have attached numbers, letters, and /or insignia, and can be white or gray unless the individual is "the pitcher".

In high school they cannot be white.
In MLB they have to match the rest of the team's. I remember the Oakland A's wearing white many years ago...

NFHS (Fed) Rules...If the pitcher's undershirt sleeves are exposed, they can't be white or gray.

Will

Based on our experience with USSSA, your umpire was wrong. We have had two or three occasions where an umpire has made our pitchers pull their long sleeve white underarmour up at least past the elbow.

By the rule book, pitcher sleeves cannot be white or grey. AAU plays under Federation rules and I believe USSSA play under Pro Rules.

This past Sunday I had a AAU-14 game. The pitcher had on white sleeves. The temp was high 40's - low-50's. I was in the field and approached the UIC, we made the judgement that unless the offensive team said anyting we were going to let it go. To cold and to early in the season.

Assuming that USSSA plays by OBR, and that all of this pitcher's teammates (who were wearing long sleeves) had matching colored sleeves, then the umipre ruled correctly based on the letter of the rule. It is possible that he hasn't read Jaksa or Roder (which are not ruling documents, they are just accepted rules commentaries) and only had the rulebook as a reference. Anyway, the plate umpire would have as much trouble with seeing the ball if the undershirt was problematic as the batters, so I daresay that he had as good an idea of whether the sleeve actually was distracting than the kids who were using it as a convenient excuse for poor performance did.

I have always thought this a strange rule because we have no problem if the ENTIRE shirt is white, only if the the sleeves are.

I would think it would be just as easy to lose the ball in a white jersey as a white under Armour.