Sentences with phrase «major league umpires»

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!

That prompted the Saturday statement and action from major league umpires.

That research raised a number of questions regarding the biases of major league umpires, specifically concerning the total.

If all ballplayers were Stan Musials, anybody in the United States could be a major league umpire.»

But Major League umpire Ed Hickox beat that trend this week when a jury in the District of Columbia found that the Wilson Sporting Goods Co. must pay him $ 775,000 following injuries he suffered as home plate umpire from a foul ball that struck him in the jaw.

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:

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.

Not exact matches

Patek, who used to play in the National League, said that instead of plumping for interleague play, the majors should adopt interleague umpiring, just to even things out.

In today's expansion - diluted market it is often possible to regard the major league catcher as a sort of convenience, somebody to stop the ball from hitting the umpire when the batter misses it and to get the ball back to the mound.

Baseball has not said how the new - old umpires would be folded back into major league service, if and when they do become eligible to return.

Tim Welke, secretary - treasurer of the World Umpires Association, the new union that rose from the ashes of the Richie Phillips - led group that collapsed after the resignation fiasco, says such a small number easily could be absorbed by Major League Baseball.

The fallout from the umpires union's ill - conceived 1999 mass resignation continued last month, when an arbitrator in Philadelphia declared that Major League Baseball must take back nine of the 22 umps who lost their jobs.

Joe has upheld the rules of fair play for more than 5,000 Major League Baseball games, and is on his way to the record for most career games ever worked by an MLB umpire.

Upset over «escalating verbal attacks» on its members, the World Umpires Association issued a statement and wore white wristbands in protest across Major League Baseball games on Saturday.

The officials are seeking parity, or something close to it, with major league baseball umpires.

Rich Rieker, director of umpiring for Major League Baseball.