Umpires

Bob Costas will host The Umpires, which is a taped sit-down with Steve Palermo, now an MLB umpire supervisor, Bruce Froemming, who helps train young umps for MLB and retired ump Don Denkinger, who drew plenty of attention for a famously blown call in the 1985 World Series.

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One began his major-league career at seventeen, another didn’t make it to the big leagues until he was fifty The results, in short: Umpires seem to lead normal lives, dying at about the same age as everyone else.

WHY is the FOUL POLE FAIR? VINCE STATEN 2003

Maybe it finally puts to rest the phony claim that you and your colleagues are the impartial "Umpires" your crew chief described.

Home/News 2010

"Umpires have been known to change the strike zone for pitchers who have embarrassed them," Paul Dickson notes in his book "The Unwritten Rules of Baseball."

Arbitrary Power in America's Pastime Eric Felten 2011

Perhaps the solution to the ejection problem is to play every game in football weather: Umpires toss just 5.8 players per every 100 games played in a temperature below 50 degrees.

Do Ejections Rise With the Mercury? 2011

Umpires who are committed to making sure the game is fair.

David Katz, M.D.: Public Health and the Illusion of Your Autonomy: Kill the Umpire? M.D. David Katz 2012

Umpires who are committed to making sure the game is fair.

David Katz, M.D.: Public Health and the Illusion of Your Autonomy: Kill the Umpire? M.D. David Katz 2012

Umpires' calls are what philosophers of language call "performative utterances"—their say-so is what makes it so.

Arbitrary Power in America's Pastime Eric Felten 2011

Umpires can earn between about $90,000 and $300,000 a year.

Baseball's Masked Men Show Their Inner Hams on Strike Three Jared Diamond 2011

Umpires usually let swinging strikeouts speak for themselves.

Baseball's Masked Men Show Their Inner Hams on Strike Three Jared Diamond 2011