That's super interesting. Thanks for writing that. I'll have to check that book out.
Yeah. I've never seen anything like this before. Pitches down the middle are balls. Far outside is a strike. I just saw a recent Jomboy video and they replayed one of his calls and it shows him closing his eyes. He never bothers to run to get a good view …
That's super interesting. Thanks for writing that. I'll have to check that book out.
Yeah. I've never seen anything like this before. Pitches down the middle are balls. Far outside is a strike. I just saw a recent Jomboy video and they replayed one of his calls and it shows him closing his eyes. He never bothers to run to get a good view of the play and just guesses.
Honestly he reminds me of some little league umps that we would get who you could tell hated being there and would just call strikes to end the game.
Also get "As They See 'Em," a modern book about the lives of umpires, "The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand," in which a reporter was embedded with an umpiring crew in 1974, and the Society for American Baseball Research book "Umpires and the Art of Umpiring." All are great.
Contact me off-line and I can get you the latter book from SABR for members' price ($17.99) instead of non-members. ($34.99)
Only one umpire in baseball history was banned for life: Tim Higham, in the 1880s. He threw games.
Someone asked an umpire why gamblers never approached them to dump games, and the ump (it might have been Klem) responded: "Because we'd throw him out the hotel room window."
That's super interesting. Thanks for writing that. I'll have to check that book out.
Yeah. I've never seen anything like this before. Pitches down the middle are balls. Far outside is a strike. I just saw a recent Jomboy video and they replayed one of his calls and it shows him closing his eyes. He never bothers to run to get a good view of the play and just guesses.
Honestly he reminds me of some little league umps that we would get who you could tell hated being there and would just call strikes to end the game.
Also get "As They See 'Em," a modern book about the lives of umpires, "The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand," in which a reporter was embedded with an umpiring crew in 1974, and the Society for American Baseball Research book "Umpires and the Art of Umpiring." All are great.
Contact me off-line and I can get you the latter book from SABR for members' price ($17.99) instead of non-members. ($34.99)
Only one umpire in baseball history was banned for life: Tim Higham, in the 1880s. He threw games.
Someone asked an umpire why gamblers never approached them to dump games, and the ump (it might have been Klem) responded: "Because we'd throw him out the hotel room window."
Haha nice