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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Friday night was a night tiny baseball lovers ... night at Roadrunner Little League. But someone was missing, Terry Dolan. The beloved umpire and volunteer was killed in ...
“I worked Little League games in high school for extra cash, and when I graduated from high school, I got involved with the Northern Virginia Baseball Umpires Association, which works all the ...
His parents and friends suggested he find a job in a field he loved, and the field he loved was baseball. He thought about umpiring Little League games, but instead, he hooked up with a high ...
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 ...
Minor-league baseball has been woven into ... even though many of the MLB-imposed standards have little benefit outside of baseball. In Modesto, the cost of improving John Thurman Field to meet ...
Gibbs isn’t an umpire, but a “sir,” the original title of the uniformed men officiating America’s pastime. College baseball ... % Renaissance fair, 80% Little League.” ...
There is something unusual going on in a whole lot of Major League Baseball ... It looks like baseball and feels like baseball. But then.. there's this -- an umpire feeling the music?
Nothing unites fans more than a disdain for the Men in Blue. But some people have an innate desire to make calls. MLB is working hard to find them.
America's pastime is looking a little different every year as technological innovations, society's shrinking attention span and big-money marketing concerns creep into Major League Baseball.
If Las Vegas Raiders left tackle Kolton Miller is truly available, the Patriots need to make a trade to New England happen.