Sentences with phrase «league umpires»
"League umpires" refers to officials who oversee and make judgments in sports games, particularly in professional leagues. Full definition
Nonetheless, after hitters complained that Miller's body art was a distraction, the Blue Jays righthander was told by major league umpire supervisor Jim McKean that he would have to pitch in sleeves this year.
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American League umpires don't take pride in their work.
This Little League Umpire calling the Australia - Puerto Rico game has to be one of the best umpire's in all of baseball...
In the National League the umpire stands in front of the base on the edge of the grass.
It's a youth league umpire calling out what looks like a 10 - 12 year old kid on a called third strike and getting into it like he's a major league baseball umpire with some ridiculous third strike routine.
He spent nine seasons as a major league umpire in the National League.
-- National League umpire Dave Pallone in ejecting Cubs manager Gene Michael for spinning the ump's cap in an argument.
According to Hunter Wendelstedt, a Major League umpire since 1999 and head of a leading umpire school, featured on the Freakenomics podcast commenting on the PITCHf / x data:
Under a headline in The Sporting News that read: «Rules Experts Fire Broadside at Navy Critic,» James T. Gallagher, chairman of the Playing Rules Committee of Organized Ball, and Cal Hubbard, supervisor of American League umpires, sprang to the defense of the rule book.
Where can I find a NOrth Newark Little League Umpire / Concession Stand resume example in Newark, Ohio?
That research raised a number of questions regarding the biases of major league umpires, specifically concerning the total.
As a former High School and college baseball umpire who volunteered many years as a Little League umpire and has been teaching new umpires in youth baseball now for twenty years AND a Roman Catholic I was thoroughly amused by Mr. Prothero's take on the Series game ending Obstruction call and his big picture analogy from the Vatican.
Little Fred Patek, the 5» 4» shortstop of the Kansas City Royals, blew his low - level top recently at American League umpires, all of whom tower over the tiny shortstop.
• Joe Linsalata, American League umpire, on the life of umpires on the road: «We have friends, just like other people.
As Will Harridge, president of the American League, put it in a wire to all league umpires:
«A purchasing agent named Cecil Messer, who does some youth - league umpiring and managing, told me about Ron,» says Pierce.
That prompted the Saturday statement and action from major league umpires.
If all ballplayers were Stan Musials, anybody in the United States could be a major league umpire.»
The University of Southern Illinois Press re-issued Gutkind's book (originally by Dial Press) about major league umpires, The Best Seat In Baseball, But You Have to Stand!
And I'll never understand why it's easier for a female to become an astronaut or cop or fire fighter or soldier or Supreme Court justice than it is to become a major league umpire.