#umpires

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#arms #around #give #her #i

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

Umpires are necessary evils. ↗

— Doug Harvey

#necessary #umpires

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans. ↗

— Eric Liu

#fixed #humans #judges #monitoring #out

I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements. ↗

— Bill Klem

#feet #home #home plate #i #least

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. ↗