Just like a player having to conquer several levels of baseball before making it to the big leagues, umpires aspiring to be selected for the Little League events undergo a “rigorous” selection ...

A little league game ... the 13-year-old umpire. Lakewood police released video of the scene: "I think the saddest part in all of this is we're talking about a 7-year-old baseball game," said ...

Bettmann / Getty Images As the first black umpire in Major League Baseball, Emmett Ashford encountered ... “I gave them a little showmanship and the crowd loved it,” he later recalled of ...