I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.
From Doug Harvey
Give me 10 high school pitchers, let me spend a week with them, and I'll show you 10 pitchers who won't balk. It's not that difficult, and they better learn it.
The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpires.
You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league umpire.
When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the object was 'neither glory nor extent of territory, but a defense of all that is dear and valuable in life.' He must have been an umpire. That's what umpiring is about.
I went into umpiring at age 16. I got into officiating because of the fact that I could not stand the referees that worked our basketball games.
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