#umpires

Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face. ↗

— Jim Evans

#biggest problems #constant #each #expected #face

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game. ↗

— Herb Kohl

#ball game #basketball #call #game #involvement

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

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

I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional. ↗

— Gaylord Perry

#anything #ask #case #caught #grease

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

#often #reason #same #should #third

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

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. ↗