#umpires

Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions. ↗

— Jim Evans

#decisions #each #enables #evaluated #helps

People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card. ↗

— Frank Robinson

#arguing #brings #card #come #field

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions. ↗

— Frank Butler

#call #close #decisions #like #them

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#baseball #business #executives #master #maybe

I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#humor #sports #umpires #humor

Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it. ↗

— Cal Hubbard

#close #every #hit #i #misses

The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it. ↗

— Bill Klem

#cannot #fans #game #recall #umpires

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams. ↗

— Bill Klem

#blaming #cowardly #field #instead #manage

Almost without exception, they are men who dreamed of athletic heroism as children; becoming umpires was their compromise with their own lack of talent. ↗

— Thomas Boswell

#umpires #dreams

When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had. ↗

— Jim Evans

#chief #coming #had #i #league